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rug

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Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:26 PM Mar 2016

"their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them"

The Gospel read at Easter Vigil.

Luke 24:1-12

At daybreak on the first day of the week
the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus
took the spices they had prepared
and went to the tomb.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb;
but when they entered,
they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
While they were puzzling over this, behold,
two men in dazzling garments appeared to them.
They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground.
They said to them,
“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?
He is not here, but he has been raised.
Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee,
that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners
and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”
And they remembered his words.
Then they returned from the tomb
and announced all these things to the eleven
and to all the others.
The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James;
the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles,
but their story seemed like nonsense
and they did not believe them.
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb,
bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone;
then he went home amazed at what had happened.

There you have it. The good news came in riding on a doubt. And so it remains.

Happy Easter to all who embrace it and peace to all regardless of faith or doubt.
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"their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them" (Original Post) rug Mar 2016 OP
Happy Easter. 840high Mar 2016 #1
Thank you for posting this. Happy Easter to you as well...nt jonno99 Mar 2016 #2
Happy Easter to you and bless you. nt Ilsa Mar 2016 #3
doubt's as old as belief: the heirs of the Deists flatter themselves that they invented it MisterP Mar 2016 #4
Happy Easter to you and yours. Adsos Letter Mar 2016 #5
A happy Easter to you and your family, rug. okasha Mar 2016 #6
How could there be any doubt? Cartoonist Mar 2016 #7
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