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1.CHURCH: _Diocesan Shrine of Jesus the Divine Word at Christ the King Mission Seminary _
___In today’s gospel, Mary Magdala goes to the tomb while many of the other disciples of Jesus have run
away or are in hiding. When she finds the empty tomb she informs Simon Peter, but her words to him do
not show complete faith in the resurrection as she says: “they have taken him away and we don’t know
where they put him.”
Simon Peter and the disciple who loved Jesus ran to the tomb. More clues of the resurrection were
discovered. The empty tomb, the burial clothes folded and put to the side, the heavy stone rolled away,
and the cloth that had covered his head—this sort of circumstantial evidence gets a bad name in the law
and judicial system as if it alone can not be persuasive. However, as the gospel reading concludes, the
disciple who came to the tomb with Simon Peter “saw and believed.”___