They did not yet understand the scripture

At 10,34a.37-43; Ps 117; Col 3,1-4 or 1Cor 5,6b-8; Jn 20,1-9
21 APRIL

It is urgent and immediately to be convinced that Jesus is not a man like all other men and not even a God like all the other gods that are worshiped in this world. Jesus is the only gift of the Father, that is, of the Creator and Lord of all the visible and invisible universe of heaven and earth, of things and of man, through whom humanity, which is in death, can return to life, from sin can pass to grace, from darkness to light and from perdition to salvation. According to this truth, Jesus is the eternal, divine and human Different, the only one that can tear man, every man, from death and bring him back into life. He is life, light, grace and truth. He is the only gift of God. Who wants to return to be life, light, grace, truth, justice, holiness, love, mercy, hope, forgiveness, peace and reconciliation, not only must he believe in Christ, but he must also become with him one mystery, one thing and one body. Everything comes from him and for him. Everything is lived in him and with him. In him and with him it means in his body that is the Church. Welcoming Christ is welcoming the Church. Being in Christ is living in the Church. Being with Christ and working with the other disciples of Christ, members of his body, in great communion, with a spirit of great collaboration, putting everyone at the service of the other one’s own being and life, accepting the life of the other as absolutely indispensable for the truth of our life. Without faith in the Church there is no faith in Christ Jesus. Without faith in Christ Jesus there is no faith in the Father. For the Church to Christ, for Christ to the Father. From the Father, Christ, from Christ, the Church. The Father, Christ and the Church are one mystery of salvation. If man does not return to be from the Father, and he can go back through the way of the Church, the way of Christ, the way that is Christ, never will he be in his truth of origin. His being is from the Father. Resurrection is the essence of the truth of man. Today man is in death. In the separation of the soul from his body. In this separation man is not that creature made by God in his image and likeness. He is a split being. By winning death with the resurrection, man can return to being a true man.

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

Scripture always proclaims the mystery of the Saviour of man in his unity of death and resurrection. Jesus loves the Father up to the gift of his life, making it a sacrifice and a holocaust to take away the sin of the world. The Father glorifies his Son, giving him his life again in an unimaginable way to any creature. He raises him with a glorious, spiritual, incorruptible and immortal body. The Father covers Jesus with his own divine light. Without any difference. As a reward, he gives all mankind to him, but placing a condition that must always be respected. Only those who have believed in his Word and will have embraced him as the only Messiah, Saviour, Christ, God, Lord and Life of his life, will be enveloped by the light of Christ and his life. Believing in Scripture is welcoming as our mystery the whole mystery of Jesus which is of eternal subsistence, incarnation, universal mediation not only in creation, but also in redemption, in salvation, in the gift of grace and life, truth and light, way and resurrection. But believing in Scripture is believing in the mystery of death that envelops man after his sin. The Lord promised to bless him in the seed of Abraham, and Jesus is the descendant. But do we believe in Scripture?

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, give us a very pure faith in Jesus according to Scripture.