6 Apr 2024
From Doubt and Grief to Hope and Joy
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For 6 April 2024, Easter Saturday, based on Mark 16:9-15
The Song: I Have Seen the Lord
Now after Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Anonymous
06 April 2024 @ 3:33 am
Thank you for this reflection! It is such a heart-warming reminder to stay hopeful and joyful despite uncertainties and grief. I love listening to your preaching!
Peggy
07 April 2024 @ 1:16 am
Thank you Mary Erika.
Brigid Cannon, OP
07 April 2024 @ 2:38 am
So grateful Mary Erika for your sharing of a life experience that brought you to new life and deep faith in Jesus’s Resurrection. And for sharing the Good News in today’s gospel that there is life after death and grief in our lives. We are the Body of Christ now to bring the Good News to others just as you have.
Blessings on your continued preaching,
Brigid
Anonymous
07 April 2024 @ 4:45 am
Beautiful! Thank you!