The Gospels do not describe the chronicle of Christ‘s Resurrection, but the experience of the Risen One in the early church.
All the evangelists hint at the fact that the fulfilment of law (Sabbath) delays both the unrepeatable understanding and the awareness of the power of Life unleashed by the Person, the Word, the whole story and proposal of Jesus.
Mk and in particular Mt reiterate the appointment of «Galilee»: theological and existential territory as opposed to Judea of official religiosity.
Today, we would perhaps speak of "spirit of the origins" - primeval experience of the Lord - or of "rough daily brief life"; and of an «outgoing Church».
Mt specifies that it is the event of «the Mount»: we experience the Living One in embodying the Beatitudes, the humble but vital Spirit of Love.
Reversal that sometimes throws away idols to the air - by forcing us to meet, in the dignity of our own imprint carried within the uniqueness, in the family spirit, for eternity.
Lk recommends not looking for the Friend [our starting point, guide, panache and silent knowledge] among dead realities that clutter.
To the disciples of Emmaus, He reveals himself in the capacity for overturned interpretation of inglorious events, and in an ardent Scriptures’ understanding.
In particular, He manifests himself in the breaking of bread [‘breaking of life’]: in the reciprocity of those who receive and become “food”, without inhibiting the character, and exceptional choices.
Jn insists that we must turn our gaze first planted on the tomb. In the pit of a sepulcher there is nothing but a Birth.
The fourth Gospel gives the essential criterion for recognizing the manifestation of the living Jesus: his Peace.
Not the Pax Romana type (the empire was at peace) but Shalôm-fullness. We would say: complete Happiness - true ‘golden age’.
Therefore the missionary Mandate that the Lord sends us does not proclaim a different doctrine.
It is the invitation to be fully oneself in Him, and thus to be able to embody the same Tenderness of the Father - vast, not according to rule, inclusive.
But: what has changed for us with the Resurrection? Is there any evidence that Jesus lives? Why does not He appear? What would be the signs? And the big benefits?
O. Wilde stated: «When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers». We must get rid of these kinds of demands.
Prayers stranded by common expectations or intentions, are sometimes like the "women" of the Easter morning Gospels.
Still planted on funeral laments, they seek Life in the wrong places: that are infertile, because linked to ideas of corpses.
There is a different characterizing track, for each of us, that drags from within, and is growing. For a decisive peak, not an external one.
Victory of life means: ceasing to bind oneself to idolatries that are inactive, that seem suitable; however, as a fallback.
We can make the innate Appeal of the essence fly, wich we do not yet see but which ardently pulses and unquenchably.
It will not be the conventional, conditioned, conforming, in-tone and “as-is befitting”, but one-sided, shoddy objective - that will give us Joy.
It captures the unseen energy, «by name». That wants to sprout from the dark and opposite sides.
Birth and death are experiences of many times: why? For the uninterrupted “Genesis”, and other possibilities.
For healthy growth towards humanizing fulfillment, in generosity and baptismal aptitude, the jammed soul must be set free.
Our unusualness feels lost in the vicious circles of normal hopes.
And what we had imagined inexorably equal, therefore vain and stagnant - muddies the astonishment of surprises that go beyond expectations and intentions.
By eliminating conventional and other people's intentions in favor of personal Dreams that exaggerate, we will come to know the atypicality of God leaping up from the rubble and chaos of patterns.
The missionaries know this: it is not from Judea that certainty comes, but from Galilee, that is, from uncertainty. Their safety is in insecurity.
It is the darkness that makes us reborn.
Laying down what we previously interpreted with a sense of permanence, we will marvel at the Treasures that hide behind shaky sides. And of the independent Life that snaps, between signs of death.
Perhaps not a few people are still surprised by the 'empty tomb': that is, a Risen Jesus only 'personal', lived in love, in the free normal, in the self-giving that overcomes death. But without any 'mausoleum'.
[Easter, Resurrection of the Lord].
