Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Tuesday within the Octave of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter two, verses thirty-six thru forty-one;
Psalm Thirty-three (R/. five[b]; or, "Alleluia"), verses four & five, eighteen & nineteen, & twenty & twenty-two;
Sequence Victimae paschali laudes;
The Gospel according to John, chapter twenty, verses eleven thru eighteen.
Commentary: Easter Readings.
Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel reveals St. John’s report of Mary Magdalene’s encounter with the risen Jesus. An interesting lesson follows from the disquieting fact of the Resurrection—namely, that this world is not it. What I mean is that this world is not all that there is. We live our lives with the reasonable assumption that the natural world as we’ve come to know it is the final framework of our lives and activities. And one of the most powerful and frightening features of the natural world is death. Every living thing dies and stays dead.Video reflection by Deacon Arthur L.Miller (U.S.C.C.B.): Easter Reflection.
But what if death and dissolution did not have the final say? What if, through God’s power, and according to his providence, a “new heavens and a new earth” were being born? The Resurrection of Jesus from the dead shows as definitively as possible that God is up to something greater than we had imagined or thought possible.
And therefore we don’t have to live as though death were our master. In light of the Resurrection, we can begin to see this world as a place of gestation, a place of growth and maturation toward something higher, more permanent, and more splendid.
Video reflection by Doctor Tim Gray (Augustine Institute/Formed.org): Easter Reflection.
Audio reflection by Doctor Shane Owens (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Letters from Home.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Christian renunciation is an authentic way of Christian life. It implies a hierarchical classification of its goods & it stimulates us to choose the better part."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope Saint Paul VI (1897-1978, r. 1963-1978; feast: 29 May)
"One cannot desire freedom from the cross when one is especially chosen for the cross."Mother Teresa Quote o' the Day
—Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, O.C.D. (1891-1942, feast: 9 August)
"Maybe there is a rich person who has no one to visit him; he has plenty of other things, he is nearly drowned in them, but there is not that touch & he needs your touch."Archbishop Sheen Quote o' the Day
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. (1910-1997, feast: 5 September)
"The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake & we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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