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“Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And … they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy”
Fear and joy are rare bedfellows. Perhaps we experience the two together when we hear someone’s in labour, or we get a new job. But usually fear is a joyless emotion.
Not so for the two Marys, when we see them at Jesus’s tomb on Easter morning. Of course they’re frightened. Who wouldn’t be when faced by an earthquake? By an empty grave. By Roman guards, liable, any moment now, to take violent revenge for what looks to them like body-snatching? And by a luminescent being perched on the rock that was supposed to keep Jesus locked away.?
Yet this seismic scene fills them with joy. This isn’t a body snatch. The world is being turned inside out. Jesus’s talk of being raised to life is happening before their eyes. He’s alive, somewhere. His forgiving submission on the cross - which mystified many - has defeated the cruelty that hung him there. And now the earth’s crust is shaking with the emergence of the Kingdom of God in the resurrection of Christ. Death is conquered.
Not your average April morning.
Happy (if a little scary) Easter.
Mary C
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Collect
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God of glory,
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
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