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Catholic Charities USA
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection
Readings of the Day
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"Alleluia! He is Risen! If ever there was an Easter
when we all needed a confirmation of life shining forth from death,
this may be it.
What struck me most in these readings today was the last line of
John's Gospel. Simon Peter and the other disciple have run
to the now-empty tomb to see for themselves that their teacher, whom
they had just buried, was no longer there. The sentence
"For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to
rise from the dead" captured for me, in a visceral way, our
present reality. We do not yet understand so much about the pain
and dislocation and struggle that we're experiencing, whether as
individuals and families, as agencies trying to stand in a perilous
place, or as a global community. We do not yet see the light on
the other side, the life that will come from death, both small deaths
and large ones.
Even apart from our troubling current landscape of not understanding,
it's safe to say that we typically don't understand the
Scripture that speaks to us of life coming from death. How much
do we really trust that? How much do we fight against it,
conditioned by society and by our own frail human nature to preserve
what we have now, where we are now, who we are now? It's a
big ask, of course. The biggest. Which is why it takes a
lifetime of practice to learn and trust.
We don't yet have perspective. The struggle and losses are
still too fresh, with more to come in the next weeks and months.
But this Holy Week, this Triduum, this Easter - this is the
lived communal journey of death into new life. I pray we will
remember this in the years to come, when we are comfortably again in
our parishes singing the Easter Alleluia. These are hard
lessons, but I don't recall reading anywhere that this path
would be easy. Remember that if we truly trust in God's
mercy for us, in the model of life-from-death that He shows us, then
resurrection will surely come.
Alleluia! He is Risen!"
Scott Cooper has served as Parish Social Ministry Director of Catholic
Charities Eastern Washington (Spokane) for over 19 years. He and
his family look forward to returning to music ministry at Sacred Heart
Parish in Spokane soon.
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