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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today’s Gospel reveals St. John’s report of Mary Magdalene’s encounter
with the risen Jesus.</b></span> An interesting lesson follows from the disquieting
fact of the Resurrection, namely that this world is not </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">it</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">.
What I mean is that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>this world is <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">not </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">all that there is</span>.</b></span> We live our
lives with the reasonable assumption that the natural world as we’ve
come to know it is the final framework of our lives and activities. And
one of the most powerful and frightening features of the natural world
is death. Every living thing dies and stays dead.
</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">But
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>what if <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">death and dissolution</span> did not have the final say? What if,
through God’s power, and according to his providence, a "new heavens and
a new earth" were being born? </b><b>The Resurrection of Jesus from <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the dead
</span>shows as definitively as possible that God is up to something greater
</b></span>than we had imagined or thought possible.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">And
therefore we don’t have to live as though death were our master. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>In
light of the Resurrection</b></span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> we can begin to see </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>this world as a place of
gestation, a place of growth and maturation </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>toward something higher,
more permanent, and more splendid.</b></span></span></b></b></span></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091layout-row-margin22724" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" valign="top"><table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091layout-row22724" class="m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091layout m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091layout-row m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091widget m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091_widget_picture" align="center"><td id="m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091layout-row-padding22724" valign="top"><table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-8406771680865464649gmail-m_-3633887954210470091image-td" align="center" width="650" valign="top"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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