![]() ![]() The gospels tell us, every year, that there is no such thing as a ho-hum, ordinary, or familiar Easter. See me, but don’t seek to close me in.” I think we are all, each of us, invited this season of Easter to recall and be aware of our own mixture of fear and joy whenever and wherever God’s love calls us into a new way of being. There’s this sense of, “Come close, go away. So, fear, terror even, mixed with joy, relief, exhilaration - that’s all part of this morning. But He fends her off, saying, “Do not hold on to me.” In the tender scene described by John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene seems confused, her eyes clouded in tears, until she hears the risen Jesus speak her name - “Mary” - then immediately in her joy she reaches out to hold Jesus. Matthew says that Mary Magdalene and another Mary are filled with both joy and great fear. There is certain feeling about Easter morning that the gospels strain to describe.
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