Happy Easter - He is Risen!

Jesus appears to Mary Magdaline by James Tissot
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Prayer for Today:

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

John 20:1-18

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and 

saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other 

disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and 

we do not know where they have laid him." Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward 

the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 

He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter 

came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that 

had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the 

other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did 

not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw 

two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the 

feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my 

Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw 

Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you 

weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you 

have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus said to her, 

"Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, 

"Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to 

them, `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went 

and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things 

to her.

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