On this glorious Easter Sunday, in response to Mary Magdalene’s news that the tomb of Christ is empty, we run alongside Peter to find things just as she said. As Tony explains, if we attend to what we know about Peter, in this scene we find an example of how the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity enable us to participate in Christ’s Paschal Mystery so that we might rise to new life with Him today.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23
Reading 2: Colossians 3:1-4
Gospel: John 20:1-9
Endnotes:
1 Peter 1:3
Daniel Keating, First and Second Peter, Jude, 20 in Catholic Commentary on Scripture Series (Baker Academic, 2011).
1 Peter 1:6-7
1 Peter 1:8-9
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1140a.25-30.
John 8:12
See, e.g., Mark 16:14; John 20:19; John 20:26.
St. Augustine of Hippo, Answer to Faustus, a Manichaean, 22.78.
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 355-361.
1 Peter 1:8.
Matthew 28:11-15
1 John 4:18
Luke 24:12
Luke 24:10
John 19:26-27
Luke 22:23-24
Luke 22:54-60
Luke 22:31-32
Matthew 16:16; Mark 8:29
Matthew 16:18
John 1:5
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.