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Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B BREAKING THE BREAD OF THE WORD A LECTIO DIVINA Approach to the Sunday Liturgy and Holy Days, Year C EASTER SEASON Easter Sunday (n. 33) 2nd Sunday of Easter (n. 34) 3rd Sunday of Easter (n. 35) 4th Sunday of Easter (n. 36) 5th Sunday of Easter (n. 37) 6th Sunday of Easter (n. 38) Ascension (n. 39) 7th Sunday of Easter (n. 40) Pentecost (n. 41) Prepared by Sr. Mary Margaret Tapang, PDDM *** Text of the Cover Page ends here. *** A Lectio Divina Approach to the Sunday Liturgy and Holy Days BREAKING THE BREAD OF THE WORD (n. 33) EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD “JESUS SAVIOR: He Is Our Risen Lord” BIBLE READINGS Acts 10:34a, 37-43 // Col 3:1-4 or I Cor 5:6b-8 // Jn 20:1-9 I. BIBLICO-LITURGICAL REFLECTIONS: A Pastoral Tool for the LECTIO A. Gospel Reading (Jn 20:1-9): “He had to rise from the dead.” Today – the Easter Sunday of the Lord’s Resurrection - is the solemnity of solemnities and the greatest feast in the liturgical year. In this fifty-day season of delectable newness and renewal, the joyful “Alleluias” of God’s redeemed people ring out more brightly and ecstatically. Easter culminates in the celebration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, when the Risen Lord’s gift of salvation makes its full impact on peoples of the earth. The Gospel reading (Jn 20:1-9) speaks of the disciples’ experience of the empty tomb on the day of Christ’s resurrection. The discovery of the empty tomb on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, evokes the first day of the week of creation when there was “darkness over the deep” (Gen 1:1), just before God uttered his powerful word, “Let there be light!” (Gen 1:1), thus dispelling the primeval darkness. Indeed, the “first day of the week”, when Christ broke forth from the tomb, is the feast of new creation. It is the glorious triumph of Light over the abysmal darkness of sin and death. The empty tomb, which Mary Magdalene saw after the stone had been rolled away, was a sign that something stupendous had happened. Peter and John went inside the tomb and saw the linen cloths that were used to wrap the dead body of Jesus crucified. On Easter morn, the “other disciple whom Jesus loved” - “the one who arrived at the tomb first” - perceived the empty tomb littered with the burial cloths of Jesus as a sign indicating the Lord’s resurrection. Hence, on “the first day of the week”, John, “the beloved disciple of Jesus”, understood the empty tomb as a paschal sign and believed. Indeed, from the empty tomb new life sprang forth! The Easter event of the Lord’s resurrection flows out from his passion and death on the Cross. As an Easter people we share in the rising of the one who prodigiously laid down his life for the sheep. The following personal testimony is inspiring (cf. Marion Bond West in Daily Guideposts 2014, p. 110). Just before Easter, I made special efforts setting the dining room table. I’d purchased a pastel tablecloth with cute rabbits and decorated eggs on it. My ancient, flowered dishes, which had been my mother’s, blended in perfectly. For a centerpiece, I decided on a lavender, velveteen rabbit and purple irises from our yard. Still, I wasn’t quite satisfied with my handiwork. Something seemed to be missing. The back door opened and I heard, “Mom”. My son Jeremy had stopped by after getting off from work. We sat down in the living room. “Anything happen at the restaurant today?” “Yeah, it did. Today I served a fellow. We made small talk. He was alone. When I went off to clear his table, he handed me a bill. I almost just stuck it in my pocket. I don’t usually look at tips. But I did this time.” “And?” “A twenty!” “Wow.” “I ran after him, almost to his car. ‘Sir, you gave me a twenty by mistake.’ He turned to me, smiled, and said, ‘No mistake. I wanted you to have it.’ ‘But it’s way too much. You don’t have to do this.’ Looking right into my eyes, he said, “Jesus didn’t have to go to the Cross either.’” After my son left, I found a small wooden cross and stood it by the purple irises on the dining room table. B. First Reading (Acts 10:34a, 37-43): “We ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.” Luke’s Acts of the Apostles is used as the First Reading in the Easter season and replaces temporarily the normative Old Testament reading of the Sunday liturgy. In today’s First Reading (Acts 10:34a, 37-43), the liturgical assembly hears a part of Peter’s Easter proclamation in Caesarea to the Roman centurion Cornelius and his household. While at prayer, the God fearing Cornelius sees an angel who comes in and commands him to send for a certain man named Simon Peter at Joppa. Likewise, Peter, when he goes to the rooftop to pray, has a vision of a large sheet, filled with all kinds of animals, reptiles and wild birds, being lowered by its four corners from heaven. This vision of the clean and unclean animals that Peter is commanded to eat by the voice from heaven and the revelatory word: “What God has made clean, you have no right to call profane” (Acts 10:15) convince Peter that Gentiles are no longer to be considered impure. Indeed, Peter’s address to Cornelius and his household (Acts 10:34-43) is a personal testimony of his intimate experience with Jesus, the Servant-Son of Yahweh and the glorious Risen Lord. Chosen beforehand by God, the apostle Peter is one of the privileged witnesses of the Easter mystery of the Christ who rose from the dead. He proudly declares that he was one of those who ate and drank with Jesus after he rose from the dead. The Easter experience is a stupendous and transforming event that has changed a vacillating and parochial minded Peter into a great apostle and missionary of the Risen Lord. Indeed, the Easter event is an experience of the power of God and the fulfillment of the promise of new life in Jesus Christ. Guy Keeler’s article in the newspaper FRESNO BEE (March 27, 2007, p. E1 & E4) entitled “The Help Guy” is about Dale Brannan, a Christian believer blessed by God with a passion for helping others. Brannan publishes and distributes NEEDHELP NOW, a tabloid-size 12-page brochure listing agencies in the Fresno area providing help for people in crisis. This publication, which is distributed for free, has a two-fold purpose: to guide the hurting to places where they can find help and to show the healthy where they can volunteer to serve the hurting. The faith story of this determined “Help Guy” has an Easter flavor and a missionary tone. Dale Brannan, 64-years old, avows that his desire to help others grew out of personal pain. He lost three children in accidents and a fourth was lost in a miscarriage. Brannan went through periods of despair and bitterness after their deaths and in rage he called God every name in the book. According to the FRESNO BEE reporter: Brannan eventually came to terms with his grief when he realized he had not been abandoned by God. He says a simple sentence from II Corinthians 1:3-4 taught him there can be a purpose in suffering. He uses these words from The Message translation of the Bible to remind him to keep his eyes on others, not on himself: “He (God) comes alongside us when we go through hard times and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.” As he thought about the anguish he endured while grieving the loss of his children, Brannan recognized there could be others who might not know where to turn during times of crises. So he put up a 4-by-8 foot sign in his front yard in 1985 that proclaimed: “THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT JESUS IS GOD’S SON AND THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. OUR DOOR IS OPEN TO YOU.” The goal in putting up the sign was to encourage passers-by to stop for help. As people knocked on his door, however, Brannan soon realized many had needs he could not meet – and he didn’t know where to send them to get assistance. Brannan brought his desire to help others with him when he moved to Fresno in 1989. He volunteered at the Fresno Rescue Mission and, a few years later, came across a pamphlet, published by the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Fresno, which listed all the nonprofit agencies within a one-mile radius. Suddenly, a light went on in his brain. He could bring hurting people together with helpers by compiling a comprehensive directory of not-for-profit agencies and blanketing Fresno County with the information … Brannan would like to see versions of NEEDHELP NOW published in every community, and he hopes to spread the idea throughout the central San Joaquin Valley and see others ultimately take it throughout the world. The “Help Guy” Dale Brannan is a modern day example of an Easter witness and a firm believer in Jesus Christ, raised from the dead by God the Father.
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