We have journeyed through Lent, all the way through the darkness and passionate love of Holy Week. We waited for the Resurrection, and it came, in its own glorious truth. We have spent this week meditating on how we respond to the Risen Christ, and what the Resurrection means for us. Now enjoy our Friday reflection video.
This post is a part of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure, Week 8.
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So nice. Thank you, Vinita.
“…and it came, in its own glorious truth.” God help me, when I read that I immediately flashed on the Grinch reflecting on how Christmas came, without any fancy stuff, just in its own glorious truth. The Resurrection has new meaning for me (not because of the Grinch), because I was lead up to it by all the posts for the Lenten Retreat. I didn’t really understand the magnificence of God’s gift to us. I had no idea how many witnesses there were to this event. And I didn’t know that Christ’s Resurrection was of His Body, and that our bodies will also be resurrected, not only our souls. This is so totally new for me, and contemplating it brings so many questions. I finally understand that our bodies will be different, and I wonder if they will be like the bodies of Moses and Elijah during the Transfiguration. Will we be radiant? How can our bodies end up in the Trinity? I could go on, but I will take it one question at a time. And in seeking the answers, I will maybe be able to live the Resurrection.
The Creighton university site (Jesuit univ) has answers to a lot of your questions at http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/online.html and of course I forget where I saw it but if you email them they can tell you where it is. It is also somewhere on the Vatican catechism site at http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
Happy reading!
Helen, you’re not alone in being surprised by what the Resurrection really means. For various reasons, Christianity, particularly in the Western hemisphere, has absorbed the Greek philosophical idea of the material world being transient and our souls being all that will survive. But a careful reading of New Testament texts makes it clear that God’s plan is not to obliterate creation but to remake it–and that includes us! Peace–Vinita
Vinita, so much wisdom. Two statements really resonated with me:
“may we open ourselves to grace day by day” and “may we allow joy to enter our hearts because it is God’s gift and the answer to our deepest desire”. Thank you very much.