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The Archdeacon’s Easter Message

 Mary Magdalene’s reaction to the empty tomb was very human and understandable.

 First, she ran away and returned with Peter and John, the disciple “whom Jesus loved.” Then, washed in tears, she told her problem to two angels without recognizing them as such, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Next it was the “gardener,” “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

 Mary was so caught up in her own issue, the theft of the body of her dear friend, that she failed to recognize God’s angels and even the risen Lord himself!!  However, when Jesus intervened with only one loving and familiar word, “Mary,” her eyes opened, and eventually she became the first witness to the resurrection, “I have seen the Lord.”

 Let us this Easter, look beyond the several tombs of our lives and our generation, and with wide-open eyes behold and bear witness to our resurrected Lord.

 I wish you and yours a Blessed and Holy Easter season.

The Venerable Canon Howard K. Williams, D.Min.