Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.
Today’s Gospel reading from Saint John tells the story of the Resurrection, when Mary Magdalene ran to Peter and John to tell them that they had taken Jesus from the tomb. Both disciples ran to the tomb to discover that the burial cloths were placed beside where Jesus’ body had been. On seeing this, the passage says that John “saw and believed.” What prompted Peter and John to drop everything they were doing and run to the tomb? In my life, what kind of revelation would it take for my faith to elevate me to “see and believe?”
Lord, help me understand that you are God of the living. In the first reading, John writes: “What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life—for the life was made visible.” Jesus, Word of life, help strengthen my faith. You, who Mary Magdalene said they had taken from the tomb, sit at the right hand of the Father. Give me the grace to use the gift of my senses to know that you are present at every Mass in the Eucharist. From the Roman Missal: “For in the mystery of the Word made flesh a new light of your glory has shone upon the eyes of our mind, so that, as we recognize in him God made visible, we may be caught up through him in love of things invisible.”
Living God, thank you for your goodness. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner! Stay with me, Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.