Amid our silence, our overpowering silence,
the stones begin to cry out (cf. Lk 19:40) and to clear the way for the greatest
message that history has ever heard: He is not here, for he has been raised (Mt 28:6).
The stone before the tomb cried out and proclaimed the opening of a new
way for all. Creation itself was the
first to echo the triumph of life over all that had attempted to silence and
stifle the joy of the Gospel. The stone
before the tomb was the first to leap up and in its own way intone a song of
praise and wonder, of joy and hope, in which all of us are invited to join…
To celebrate Easter is to believe once more
that God constantly breaks into our personal histories, challenging our conventions, those fixed ways of thinking and acting that end up paralyzing
us. To celebrate Easter is to allow
Jesus to triumph over the craven fear that so often assails us and tries to
bury every kind of hope.
The stone before the tomb shared in this,
the women of the Gospel shared in this, and now the invitation is addressed
once more to you and to me. An
invitation to break out of our routines and to renew our lives, our decisions
and our existence. An invitation that
must be directed to where we stand, what we are doing and what we are... Do we want to share in this message of life
or do we prefer simply to continue standing speechless before events as they
happen?
--Pope Francis,
To read more of Pope
Francis’ 2018 Easter Vigil Homily, click here.
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