Easter Vigil – C

Key Verse : Luke 24 : 1 – 12

Meditation : “ And they remembered.”

                     It was barely morning. Had those women moving purposefully towards the tomb even slept ? What was the sign that it was dawn and not still night ? Numb with grief, the women were intent on their labor of love, their final act of reverence and respect. They had work to do! First things first !

                          Who were these women who came to anoint the defined body of a crucified man? “The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James,” Luke tells us. But they were not alone. “Why do you seek the living one among the dead….Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee..” the mysterious messengers said at Jesus’ empty tomb.

“And they remembered”.

                           There is something remarkable about that remembering. It gave them the interpretive key for the whole bewildering set of experiences they had been through that week. On the power of their restored memory and all that it revealed, the women went to the eleven apostles with a world – changing message. Once they remembered the words Jesus had spoken, the women had everything they needed: they had found Good News and became the first ones to proclaim it.

Prayer :

Lord, the call to remember awakens my mind to a time when your grace was especially present and powerful in my life… that grace is not locked in the tomb of time it is still alive, still present, still active, because it is your grace. Throughout the Easter season, renew me daily in the memory of all you have done in my life, so that I can give you daily thanks and praise!

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