Easter Sunday: Go!

Jesus said to her, "Mary ... Go ... and tell ..."  See John 20:17


Easter Sunday:  Go!
April 16, 2017

Just one week ago, in our Palm Sunday Gospel reading, Jesus gave the disciples a task:  Go ... find ... bring.  This morning in our Easter Gospel reading, Jesus appears to Mary and gives her a task:  Go ... tell.   I find that fascinating, and so my word for Easter is Go because "going" is the first step in every new beginning! 

So often we stay in our churches and expect people to come to us but Jesus uses the word, "go" and expects us to go to them ... whoever "us and them" are.  I don't want to get caught up in the "us and them" thinking we so often do because that obscures the message of THIS day.  This "Go" theme is echoed so much throughout the Gospel that that one might think our mission might begin after we leave church.  Our mission just might be to "go and tell" others about Jesus, not necessarily in words.  Yeah, obnoxious is not the only way to tell people about Jesus!   I'm thinking modeling kindness, serving generously and loving friendship with diverse people are some wonderful ways to tell people about Jesus, the way we talk and the way we live our lives tells more about Jesus than any words we might speak.   St Francis said, "Preach always.  Use words if you have to." 

Christ the Lord is Risen TODAY!  We don't need to wait to "Go and tell!"  We can start today by treating people as human beings and praying that Christ is seen within our being and through our actions rather than only heard with our words.  I don't know, I think words are cheap.   Jesus said that if become disciples and follow him, it will be our love that identifies us as Christians.  Alleluia!  Amen!  May it be so!

Breath Prayer:
Breathing in ... Sending God
Breathing out ... speak to me
Breathing in ... Sending Christ
Breathing out ... fill me with love
Breathing in ... Sending Spirit
Breathing out ... clear my path
Breathing in ... Holy Trinity
Breathing out ...  send me to the world

Alleluia!  Amen!







To view the "Holy Week Journey to the Threshold that is Holy Saturday" leading up to this, take this LINK