Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n16 | issn 2599-5030 | 21 to 27 April 2019
EMPTY TOMB: THE SIGN
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This year 2019 is dedicated by the CBCP for the youth and this year’s Easter Sunday’s Gospel reading “The Empty Tomb” (Jn 20:1-9) insinuates some reflections that are relatable to the youth of today.
knowing whether the lifeless body of Jesus In John’s Gospel, the young lady Mary Magdalene was the first witness to the empty which they knew was buried in the tomb was tomb yet it was “still dark” and she could not indeed nowhere to be found—that the tomb is empty. Both of them wanted to know the understand the real meaning of the event truth. Both of them hoped. unfolding to her. She did not Earlier than Peter, the younger disciple understand right away that the arrived at the tomb but he did empty tomb was a sign that Jesus SUNDAY has risen. She was compelled to tell REFLECTION not dare to come into the tomb. It is understandable that Peter and the other young disciple younger people have a stronger stamina that Jesus’ body was stolen. Today than older ones yet sometimes their energies many young people are confronted of countless events which are confusing and like are not used to the max because they make reservations out of fear of losing all the Mary Magdalene; they tend to interpret energies that they have uselessly. Sometimes things not according to the signs that God the hopefulness that young people amass are imparts but according to the earthly not given justice by the culture that has experiences imposed on them by current been built around them—they are not given trends and situations like, stealing, the opportunity to translate their hopes and corruption, fake news and dishonesty which dreams into successes because they are are so rampant. Sometimes it is hard for bombarded with so much depressions and young people today to project optimism discouragements. The empty tomb which anymore since our society blinds them of the young disciple reached earlier than Peter “dark” motives rather than positivity. The did not reveal to him the true meaning of youth of today urgently need to see a tomb the emptiness of the tomb. The tomb did that is empty because death has been not assure him that death was overcome by defeated by Jesus by His resurrection. the resurrection of Jesus. When Peter Upon hearing what Mary Magdalene arrived after the young disciple, he came said, Peter and the younger disciple ran immediately to the tomb. Both Peter and the into the tomb immediately and he knew that indeed Jesus has risen because the disciple whom Jesus loved felt the sense of burial cloths are laid properly arranged—the urgency to verify what Mary Magdalene told body of Jesus was not stolen—and Peter them. We cannot really know what was in now understood “the scripture that he had the mind of both Peter and the young to rise from the dead” (Jn 20:9). disciple but we can be certain that both of EMPTY TOMB / next page them wanted to satisfy their interest in
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aapasaindo an katuninungan.” Gamit an pagpatakot sa tawo na may dara si Jesus nin krisis, an pagkabaranga kan nasyon huli kan saiyang mga bàgong katukduan, si Jesus saindang kinulgan, hinampak, ipinako sa krus sagkod LECTIO mautsan, dangan ginarod. DIVINA Ginamit pa an dayuhan na militar sa pagpasakit saiya. Gabos na disipulo nagkasiriblag sa takot. Sa tahaw kan sakit, dara ni Jesus an katuninungan. Ano an nangingibabaw na pagmati ko ngunyan na nagdadangadang an eleksyon?
“Hilnga an sakong mga kamot asin bugtakan digdi an saimong muro…” Làbas pa an mga lugad ni Jesus. Sya parehong tawo na ipinako sa krus asin na nabuhay-liwat. Inagyat nya si Tomas na atubangon an katotoohan na an tunay na kapangyarihan mayo sa mga dahuyan o sa mga militar, mayo sa mga nagpapasakit asin nanggagadan, kundi yaon sa saiya mismong pagsakit asin sa saiyang mga lugad. Mayong kaginhawahan na dai nag-aagi sa pagsakit. Ano an mga làbas pang lugad ko ngunyan?
“Kagurangnan ko asin Dyos ko!” Huli kan kusog-buot ni Tomas na kaptan an mga lugad ni Jesus, nahali an saiyang pagduda asin nagrarom an saiyang pagtubod. An agyat kan Kagurangnan sa sato iyo an pag-atubang kan satong sadiring mga lugad, an satong mga krus sa arualdaw, asin na dai nanggad ini dulagan sa paghanap nin kasiraman asin mga aling-alingan na makakaraot sana kan satong kalag. Kadaklan kan mga lugad bunga kan sadiring pagkakasala. Asin sa lugad sana ni Jesus kita mapapatawad. Ano an mga pamìbì ko ki Jesus sa tahaw kan sakong mga lugad? 4 wjs tria