Download PDF Mt 28:8-15 Filled with awe and great joy the women came quickly away from the tomb and ran to tell his disciples. And suddenly, coming to meet them, was Jesus. ‘Greetings,’ he said. And the women came up to him and, clasping his feet, they did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, […]
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Download MP3 Download PDF Mary Magdalene, wanting to show her love for the Lord even in death, runs to the tomb before daybreak. “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don’t know where they have put Him” (Jn 20:2) – she exclaims in pain, when she discovers that the stone of
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Download MP3 Download PDF Mourning for the Lord; grief for men, who have not recognised their Redeemer and have crucified Him… Mourning of the Mother for the beloved Son; mourning and bewilderment among the disciples, who say to each other in confusion: “Our own hope had been that He would be the one to set
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Download MP3 Download PDF Judas consummated his betrayal and Jesus is apprehended. This happens after the Lord had accepted in Gethsemane the suffering from the hands of his Father and had given his ‘yes’ to all that was before him. A YES that had to go through anguish and agony; a YES, after having asked
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Download MP3 Download PDF “During supper, Jesus got up from table, removed His outer garments and, taking a towel, wrapped it round his waist; he then poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel he was wearing.” (Jn 13:4-5) What great love is manifested
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Download MP3 Download PDF Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and said, ‘What are you prepared to give me if I hand Him over to you?’ They paid him thirty silver pieces. (Mt 26:14-15) The betrayal of God in exchange for unjust money… How often this story is repeated! How often people sell themselves
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Download MP3 Download PDF “In all truth I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.” (Jn 13:21b) Betrayal! Here the most terrible depths of the human heart are revealed. Betraying a friend, betraying the Master and Lord, betraying love… Apparently, no one but the beloved disciple dared to ask Him who it
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Download MP3 Download PDF “Mary brought in a pound of very costly ointment, pure nard, and with it anointed the feet of Jesus, wiping them with her hair.” (Jn 12:3) What a tender gesture on Mary’s part this Gospel passage tells us! It is a tenderness that corresponds to the being of a woman, and
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Download MP3 Download PDF “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens!” (Mt 21:9) The people are gathered, and for a short time that which corresponds to the reality of the coming of the Son of God is happening: He
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Download PDF Ez 37:21-28 The Lord Yahweh says this: I shall take the Israelites from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them to- gether from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil. I shall make them into one nation in the country, on the mountains of Israel, and one king
