The First Glorious Mystery: the Resurrection
He has risen, he is not here. Behold the place where they laid him. (Mark 16:6)
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After Jesus was killed the apostles were sure that all they had hoped for was lost, but God’s ways are so different to ours. The Father raised Jesus from the dead. He gave Him power of sin and therefore power over death. The Father not only brought Jesus back to life but gave Him a glorified Resurrected body.
Pope John Paul II wrote that although it is not recorded in Scripture, it would be expected that the first person Jesus appeared to after rising from the dead would be His Mother Mary. Imagine the joy of Mary as She sees Her Son now gloriously Resurrected!
When we unite our crosses with Jesus, we always have the guarantee of resurrection – even in this life. There is no such thing a cross-less Christianity. The only way we can experience resurrection in the many aspects of life is to go via the cross of Jesus! We too are destined to have a glorious Resurrected body. We too are destined to experience our eternal home, where ‘every tear will be wiped away, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain!’
