DAILY GOSPEL: 06/04/2010
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
Easter Tuesday
Acts of the Apostles 2:36-41.
On the day of Pentecost, Peter said to the Jewish people, «Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.»
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, "What are we to do, my brothers?"
Peter (said) to them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.
For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call."
He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.
Psalms 33(32):4-5.18-19.20.22.
For the LORD'S word is true; all his works are trustworthy.
The LORD loves justice and right and fills the earth with goodness.
But the LORD'S eyes are upon the reverent, upon those who hope for his gracious help,
Delivering them from death, keeping them alive in times of famine.
Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and shield.
May your kindness, LORD, be upon us; we have put our hope in you.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20:11-18.
Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him."
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him."
Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and what he told her.
On the day of Pentecost, Peter said to the Jewish people, «Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.»
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, "What are we to do, my brothers?"
Peter (said) to them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.
For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call."
He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.
Psalms 33(32):4-5.18-19.20.22.
For the LORD'S word is true; all his works are trustworthy.
The LORD loves justice and right and fills the earth with goodness.
But the LORD'S eyes are upon the reverent, upon those who hope for his gracious help,
Delivering them from death, keeping them alive in times of famine.
Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and shield.
May your kindness, LORD, be upon us; we have put our hope in you.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20:11-18.
Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him."
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him."
Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and what he told her.
Jn 20,11-18
Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
1st sermon for Holy Thursday, Morin Guelferbytanus 13 ; PLS 2, 572
"I am going to my Father and your Father"
«Touch me not for I have not yet ascended to my Father.» What are we to say? That Christ is better touched by faith than by flesh. Touching Christ by faith is truly to touch him. This is what the woman suffering from an issue of blood did: she drew near to Christ, full of faith, and touched his robe... And our Lord, hemmed in by the crowd, was touched by no one but this woman... because she believed (Mk 5,25f.).
My brethren, Jesus is in heaven today. While he was living among his disciples, clothed visibly in flesh and possessing a body that could be touched, he was both seen and touched. But today, now he is seated at the right hand of the Father, which of us can touch him? And yet, woe to us if we do not touch him. We all touch him who believe in him. He is far away in heaven and the distance separating him from us cannot be measured. But believe, and you touch him. What am I saying? You touch him? If you believe then you have with you the one in whom you believe...
Do you know how Mary wished to touch him? She searched for him among the dead and did not believe he would rise again: «They have taken my Lord from the tomb!» (Jn 20,2). She wept for a man... «Touch me not for I have not yet ascended to my Father.» You touch me before I have ascended to the Father and see no more than a man in me. What will that sort of faith give you? «Let me ascend to the Father. I have never left him but, for your sake, I will ascend provided you believe me to be equal to the Father.» Our Lord Jesus Christ did not leave his Father when he descended from his side. So neither has he forsaken us when he went up again from our side. For at the very time of his going up and sitting at the right hand of the Father, so far he said to his disciples: «I am with you always, until the end of the age» (Mt 28,20).
My brethren, Jesus is in heaven today. While he was living among his disciples, clothed visibly in flesh and possessing a body that could be touched, he was both seen and touched. But today, now he is seated at the right hand of the Father, which of us can touch him? And yet, woe to us if we do not touch him. We all touch him who believe in him. He is far away in heaven and the distance separating him from us cannot be measured. But believe, and you touch him. What am I saying? You touch him? If you believe then you have with you the one in whom you believe...
Do you know how Mary wished to touch him? She searched for him among the dead and did not believe he would rise again: «They have taken my Lord from the tomb!» (Jn 20,2). She wept for a man... «Touch me not for I have not yet ascended to my Father.» You touch me before I have ascended to the Father and see no more than a man in me. What will that sort of faith give you? «Let me ascend to the Father. I have never left him but, for your sake, I will ascend provided you believe me to be equal to the Father.» Our Lord Jesus Christ did not leave his Father when he descended from his side. So neither has he forsaken us when he went up again from our side. For at the very time of his going up and sitting at the right hand of the Father, so far he said to his disciples: «I am with you always, until the end of the age» (Mt 28,20).
Bl. Notker, Benedictine monk (c. 840-912)
Blessed Notker the Stammerer
Benedictine monk
(c. 840-912)
Benedictine monk
(c. 840-912)
Notker, also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He was born circa 840, to a distinguished family.
He studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, taught by Iso, and Moengall. He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892-4. He was chiefly active as a teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author.
Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time".
He died in 912. He was beatified in 1512.
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