Seen from outside the Christian faith can be described thus: "The main fact in the history of Christianity is in a number of people who claim to have seen the Risen Lord."
The change of the disciples in the hours between the evening of Holy Saturday and the morning of Easter Sunday is undeniable: to be sad and scared, locked in the room upstairs where they had eaten just before the Passover, they show enthusiastic and full of joy and the reason is the transformation consists in the encounter with a Jesus who is fully alive to meet them and show them.
From a Loved One to the targeted thought as a person from the past, Jesus becomes for them the one that precedes them and spurs them on.
He left the tomb and wait for the whole group in Galilee, the place where he started their story with Master of Nazareth.
Leaving the Upper Room to go through the night on the Mount of Olives Jesus had mentioned the thing: "All will fall away from me this night. It is written: strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered, but after my resurrection before you into Galilee. "
At that juncture, the Apostles were concerned to refute the concern of Jesus, no one would have left him and Peter, who spoke on behalf of all he added: "Even if I die with you, will not deny you."
But things had gone differently and time between the presumption of the Apostles and their hopes in the Messiah of Nazareth was a stone so heavy and difficult to roll sealed: that the tomb guarded by guards.
The first to shake off our lethargy and prostration in which death on the cross of Jesus had thrown all his friends, were women, in particular the Gospel according to Matthew appoint two Marys, Mary of Magdala or Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, who according to St. Luke is Mary the mother of James the Apostle. The two of them go to visit the tomb, they had postponed the move to meet the rest of the Sabbath, but at dawn on Sunday they move. The purpose of the trip was to honor the buried corpse sprinkled with spices and ointments. According to their perspective was the last and only thing to do to compensate in some way so much violence and hatred unleashed against a teacher who had done so good and so well.
arriving at the tomb was a great surprise, the shock had already taken control of the guards who had fallen as death. In fact, an angel came down from heaven, looking solemn, which gave the impression of lightning, and which appeared dressed in a dazzling white as snow under the rays of the sun.
One can well understand how fear and great joy mingled feelings of the two women who receive the first proclamation of the resurrection: "I know that ye seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here. He is risen, as he said."
In the words of the angel are an indication of a sign and its interpretation: the symbol is the empty tomb, humanly inexplicable event and accompanied by a roar of an earthquake that women themselves had been warned. The interpretation of the fact open proclamation of the faith: "Jesus was crucified is risen from the dead!" therefore He is Lord of life. More
the angel could do for women and this announcement is enough to make them run back to where they started to report the extraordinary news to the disciples.
Happy Easter.
Don Giovanni
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