This poem reflects Mary’s experience of going to the tomb as it is portrayed in two resurrection stories in John’s gospel (John 20:1-10 and John 20:11-18). The first passage is proclaimed in the Sunday Readings this Easter Sunday April 4, 2021. Resurrection in ONE hundred WORDs [One] Way beyond caring she Way beyond a word of consolation she Way beyond tears she looked and looked and looked. [Two] He had touched her He had spoken to her He had opened her heart. [Three] Then came the whip the spikes the cry the blood, the body broken beyond belief, the finality, and death. [Four] Still the sun rose as it does. Still the flowers bloomed, fawns foundered, the waves, consulting no one, lapped the shore and time it came that she must to His tomb. Then [Five] Mary, was all He said, and wonderingly the stone that had displaced her heart rolled away. By Peter Oliver Reflection Amazing! Jesus awakens Mary’s faith with a single word, her name. How often are we buried in the tombs of past injustice and grief? We peer in the tombs of broken family relationships and we wonder where is Jesus? At times like this, Jesus who is incredibly pleased to find us searching, speaks our name and the stones that displace our hearts rolls away. This poem reflects Mary’s experience of going to the tomb as it is portrayed in two resurrection stories in John’s gospel (John 20:1-10 and John 20:11-18). The first passage is proclaimed in the Sunday Readings this Easter Sunday. Photo Attribution Brandon Vázquez

