In our hearts, we know that things can be different but, almost without noticing it, we can grow accustomed to living with the tomb, living with frustration.
Now that, like the two women, we have visited the tomb, I ask you to go back with them to the city. Let us all retrace our steps and change the look on our faces. Let us go back with them to tell the news in all those places where the grave seems to have the final word, where death seems the only way out. Let us go back to proclaim, to share, to reveal that it is true: the Lord is alive! He is living and he wants to rise again in all those faces that have buried hope, buried dreams, buried dignity. If we cannot let the Spirit lead us on this road, then we are not Christians.
--Pope Francis, homily, April 15, 2017
Image source: Lorenzo Monaco, The Three Marys at the Tomb (manuscript illumination of a 1396 antiphonary), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Marys#/media/File:The_Three_Marys_at_the_Tomb_1396_Monaco_Lorenzo.jpg
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