Saturday, 03 April 2010
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The Sealed and Lonely Tomb: Matthew 27:62-66
The next day, on the Sabbath, the leading priests and Pharisees went to see Pilate. They told him, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise from the dead.’ So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he was raised from the dead! If that happens, we’ll be worse off than we were at first.”
Pilate replied, “Take guards and secure it the best you can.” So they sealed the tomb and posted guards to protect it.
-- Matthew 27:62-66If you were a disciple during this time, how would you feel? Would you be expectant or afraid?
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To be honest, both. I would have solid faith in Him and His word, but having the idea that someone who has died being raised from the dead would scare me. and by the way, thats a beautiful picture (: Have a Blessed Easter Sunday
I think I would be stunned and scared that this had happened. The disciples did not fully understand until after his death and ressurection what was happening. They thought he was going to establish his kingdom in the here and now, not the future. Hence most of them fled into hidding.
Now since we have time - a perspective they did not have- I can say I would have faith, but I have a tough enough time sometimes when I don't understand what life is throwing at me and I question. Back then it would be even harder.
I would do what the disciples did--go hide in the Upper Room with Christ's mother. I'm sure that she was a great source of comfort and consolation and would be a beacon of hope for them. I'm sure that a woman who was so touched by the Holy Spirit of God, who bore, raised and cared for the Messiah with her whole being, would be a strong source of peace for them all.
"Hail holy queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve, to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Oh clement, oh loving, oh sweet virgin Mary!"
I've felt that this ancient prayer really captures what the disciples must have felt, and how they must have looked to Mary for some comfort in the wake of their Messiah's capture, torture and death. Who better than His mother to remind them that all is well, and that just as the miracle of the Incarnation came about, and God became enfleshed in the world, death would be no obstacle to the God who desires above all else to "be with us, until the end of the age."