DAILY- HOMILY

APRIL 26, 2011
EASTER TUESDAY – YEAR I

Acts 2:36-41 / Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 / Jn 20:11-18

ACTS 2:36-41
Let Israel then know for sure that God has made Lord and Christ this
Jesus whom you crucified." When they heard this, they were deeply
troubled. And they asked Peter and the other apostles, "What shall we
do, brothers?" Peter answered: "Each of you must repent and be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins may be
forgiven. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the
prom ise of God was made to you and your children, and to all those
from afar whom our God may call." With many other words Peter gave the
message and appealed to them saying, "Save yourselves from this
crooked generation." So those who accepted his word were baptized;
some three thousand persons were added to their number that day.

JOHN 20:11-18
Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she bent down to
look inside; she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of
Jesus had been, one at the head, and the other at the feet. They said,
"Woman, why are you weeping?" She answered, "Because they have taken
my Lord and I don't know where they have put him." As she said this,
she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not
recognize him. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are
you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and answered him,
"Lord, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and
I will go and remove him." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and
said to him, "Rabboni"—which means, Master. Jesus said to her, "Do not
cling to me; you see I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to
my brothers and say to them: I am ascending to my Father, who is your
Father, to my God, who is your God." So Mary of Magdala went and
announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord, and this is what he
said to me."

REFLECTION
The beautiful thing is that even though Jesus is both Lord and
Messiah, we have to understand that He has not done the work of the
Messiah until He is crucified and risen from the dead. He was indeed
the Messiah, as He stood there day after day preaching in the temple
and in the area of Judea and Galilee.

Yet because He had not done the work, none of the people who heard his
preaching were able yet to be saved. No one was saved by the preaching
of the Lord. None of the disciples were. They did not even understand
it. But when the Holy Spirit descended upon them, then suddenly
everything that he had said to them made sense. And what made sense
more than anything else was that Jesus had to go to Jerusalem to
suffer, to die, and then rise again on the third day. Had He not done
that, none of us could be saved.

These people, on the other hand, who heard Peter, heard his preaching
and they believed. They believed what he had said and therefore they
were baptized.

We need to ask the same question as these people when they heard Peter
speak: "What are we to do?" We have already been baptized. So that is
not the problem. But it is the other part: simply to believe that God
has made both Lord and Messiah this Jesus whom we crucified.

PRAYER REQUESTS
We pray …
… for a deep and profound respect for life, especially for the
unborn.
… for the speedy recovery and healing of
- Jo Marcelo
- Jun Lee
- Allen P.
- Wendy
… for the personal intentions of: Dali Sotelo and her husband
… for the eternal repose of the soul of Vern Burdick. Eternal rest
grant unto her and may perpetual light shine upon her. May she and all
the dearly departed rest in peace.
… for all the prayer intentions in the MTQ Dailyprayer Diary.
- Birthday: Paula Mirelli Crisostomo Reyes
- In Memoriam (+): Victor Takai
… for world peace and reconciliation.

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers
and for those who need our prayers the most.

Have a good day!

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