C&SI - Easter Sunday - 9 April 2023 (S03E20)

ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA !!!! 
CHRISTUS RESURREXIT, 
RESURREXIT VERES 
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!!!

ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!!!!
 CHRIST IS RISEN, 
HE IS RISEN INDEED, 
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!!!

"Let everyone share this feast of faith; let everyone enjoy the riches of goodness. Let none lament their poverty; for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let none mourn their sins; for forgiveness has dawned from the grave. Let none fear death; for the Saviour's death has set us free"

- St John Chrysostom

On this Easter Day, every blessing from the C&SI team to you and yours!

On this weeks podcast we are joined by Noirin Lynch with a lovely gentle reflection in part two of the podcast on Easter joy!

Our gospel reflection is on John 20:1-9 this week which is the beginning of John's account of the Resurrection:

"It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’

So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead."

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