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Disfigured and Transfigured April 2015 | Easter Volume XIIl | Issue 4 | Rs.5 Disfigured and Transfigured Easter Greetings Moderator The Most Rev. Dr. G. Dyvasirvadam, Moderator, CSI & Bishop, Krishna-Godavari Diocese “The Glory of the Empty Tomb”:thus redeeming life-giving power:'Christ Moderator greets! has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again', a declaration which The Glory of the Resurrection posits an confesses Easter faith around argument of life after death that makes sense only in which our entire liturgy centered the face of scientific and historical claims against round. such religious beliefs. The three events the [fact of Incarnation, the fact of Crucifiction and the fact of Finally the fact of Empty Empty Tomb (Resurrection)] constitute the Tomb becomes unique anubhava, personhood of Jesus (Christology) which is crucial to the experience in the living God, both to the Gospel and to the continued life of the thus the personal experience in the Resurrection of pilgrim Church. Jesus is both moral and Spiritual: in other words this experience is the 'divine encounter'. This can be S. M. Zwemer in his 'The Glory of the Empty repeatedly observed in the life experience of every Tomb': Fleming H. Revell, 1947 page 17-18 uses the believer, starting from 'breaking of the Bread' as in same adjective to all the three above events “the Glory the experience of the two disciples of Emmaus (Luke of the Manger” (Incarnation), “the Glory of the 24: 30-31) continued in the experiences to discover Cross”(Crucifixion) and “the Glory of the Empty the “Lord” (John 21: 12-13). The climax comes in the Tomb”(Resurrection) was the conclusion of a trilogy experience of Thomas in his confession of a historic on the Birth, Death and Resurrection. Though each faith statement, “my Lord and my God”. 'Blessed are of the event carries great significance, the fact of those who have not seen and yet believe (John 20:29) Empty Tomb surpasses all other events to place the a resounding and repeated experience by which the character of Jesus as the Supreme Being. Resurrected Lord is discovered who is truly present forever & ever. Therefore the Easter anthem, 'Christ The fact of Empty Tomb takes the centrality of is risen, Hallelujah'! not only the history of humankind that would divide the divine history and the human history, coalescing With this Easter anthem I greet one and all and culminating as “Christ Centered”or the Christian brothers and sisters both in Church of Christocentric history. As Bishop Fulten J Sheen South India and elsewhere inviting each one to puts it, the fact of Empty Tomb remained ever as the participate this celebration of new life. As yet “unhealed wound” on the earth. Thus the fact of another generation, we join the ongoing exhilaration Empty Tomb becomes both the reality and a to discover the Resurrected Lord every time in constructive hope of life for eternity. participating the sacramental event. In this manner the Church of South India in particular and the This leads us to discover the human & divine Church at large in general become a Sacramental celebration of life in Jesus' Resurrection. The Church, which event brings all humans to be Resurrection is believed as the dunamis, the 'Power'(I cleansed & shared in one body and blood of one Lord Cor 15: 56-57) over sin. St.Paul believed that it is Jesus the Christ. possible for every human to have 'power' whoever is 'in Christ' (Rom 6:11) & (II Cor 5:17). This hope in May the Easter joy, enliven each one of us and Christ's Resurrection is always celebration for a enable us to be His channels to witness this living believer. faith. “Christ is risen indeed, Hallelujah”! The Eucharistic acclamation which follows the words of Institution expresses almost sensory experience of the risen Christ, who is present with His CSI Life Advertisement Tariff CSI Life Subscription Rates India - 1 Year Rs. 150/- Back Cover outside - Colour Rs. 8,500/- India - Life Time Rs. 3,000/- Back Cover inside - Colour Rs. 7,000/- U.S.A. $. 30.00 Front Cover inside - Colour Rs. 7,000/- U.K. £. 25.00 Black & White Rs. 5,000/- Australia $. 35.00 Black & White - Half Page Rs. 3,000/- Australia $. 35.00 4 ! CSI Life April 2015 EASTER MESSAGE Resurrection: Celebrating the Joy of Salvation Exo. 14:5-31; Ps.118:14-29; Col.3:1-11; Matt.28:1-10. Rev. Dr. Chilkuri Vasantha Rao, Presbyter, Medak Diocese Former Principal Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad. Introduction: According to the tradition of the early church, “Then Peter and the other disciple set out and when the preacher says JESUS IS RISEN, the went toward the tomb. The two were running congregation will respond HE IS RISEN INDEED! together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and The Burial of Jesus: saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go (The burial of Jesus as recorded in John19: 38-42) in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying “ The women who had come with him from there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place body was laid. Then they returned, and prepared by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;” according to the commandment.” (Lk.23:55-56) and (Jn.20:3-8). on Sunday morning “They had been saying to one Peter and John saw and they believed, the another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the question is what did they believe? Unfortunately they entrance to the tomb?” (Mk.16:3) At times we are in believed what Mary Magdalene told them. They such situations as that of Mary Magdalene. When we believed that the body of Jesus was taken away by are confronted with problems that of course seem like someone. Their subsequent behavior is indicative of a big stone, we think more of people, who could their unbelief about the resurrected Jesus. We read, possibly help us to overcome our problems. God's “for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that word teaches us: “It is better to trust in the LORD he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples than to put confidence in man.” (Prov.118:8). returned to their homes. (Jn.20:9-10). How sad, the The Resurrection of Jesus: “Early on the first disciples closed the chapter of Jesus in their lives. day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Mary Magdalene - Disbelief displayed to the Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone Angels: But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As had been removed from the tomb.” (Jn.20:1) Mary she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw the stone removed! That was God's work. It is saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of wonderful to see the stone removed! We are happy Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at that Jesus is risen. the feet. (Jn.20:11-12) Act One - Mary Magdalene Mary was incessantly weeping, a sign of Disbelief displayed: helplessness, which we also experience in our lives When Mary saw the stone was removed she and cry in helpless conditions. Mary was also had fallen into the trap of a philosophical insolence. persistent in wanting to find the dead body of Jesus, We are familiar with the philosophical terms such as so that she could smear the spices and ointment, 'inference' and 'conjecture'. When there is smoke on a which the women prepared. The beauty of Mary's mountain, the inference is that there is fire. In the devotion to Jesus is such that she loved him the same instance of Mary, when she saw the stone had been when he was alive and also when he is dead. removed from the tomb, she had conjectured that someone had taken away the body of Jesus. Mary perpetuated her philosophical conjecture to the Angles: “They have taken away my Disbelief displayed to Peter and John: Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him” Mary ran and went to Simon Peter and the (Jn.20:13). other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to “ them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,…” Disbelief displayed to Jesus: When she had said this, she turned around (Jn.20:2). and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know She not only speculated but also announced that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why the same to Peter and John that someone had taken are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” away the body of Jesus. She even included them in Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, her opinion saying, “and we do not know where they “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where have laid him.” (Jn.20:2). you have laid him, and I will take him away.” (Jn. 20:14-15) 5 ! CSI Life April 2015 Mary totally involved in her own presumption and say to them.” (Jn.20:17) Just as Mary Magdalene that Jesus did not resurrect, but his dead body had went and announced to the disciples, 'I have seen the been stolen mistakes the very Jesus to be a gardener, Lord'; and she told them that he had said these things who in her opinion might have stolen the body of to her.
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