A Latin spiritual journey with discerning hearts, from ashes to glory.

Day 47, He has risen. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John, chapter 20, verses 1 through 9 9 it was very early on the first day of the

week and still dark when mary of magdala came to the tomb she saw that the stone had been moved away from

the tomb and came running to simon peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved.

They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, she said, and we don't know where they have put him.

So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other

disciple running faster than Peter Peter reached the tomb first.

He bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in.

Simon Peter, who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over

his head. This was not with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other

disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in. He saw, and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of Scripture,

that he must rise from the dead.

He has risen, not metaphorically, not symbolically,

but in the flesh, in glory, and in truth.

And so begins your real retreat,

not the 40 days you've walked,

but the life you now must live.

You began in ashes.

We have passed through the desert,

through silence, through the cross.

You have watched your own tomb be sealed.

Now, with trembling and hope, you behold it open.

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