We are invited to participate in God's great narrative, to become partners in its unfolding in this world and the next. The resurrection is itself a re-beginning for us and for all who come to it in faith. New Testament scholar Daniel Harrington writes, " event reserved for the end of human history, has happened in the midst of human history.to this extent the kingdom of God is among us."4 We are to go, you and I, with the Good News to all the world. Get to Galilee and to your mission.ĭon't miss the overtones here in this overarching narrative. Then, then tell them to go to Galilee (as I have told you). They'll quake too at this news, I know they will. Go and tell all you know about what has happened here, what God has done: how death's sting is no more death's hallowed halls emptied judgment's price paid. Go tell your sisters and brothers, your cousins, your uncles and aunts. Then Jesus says, "Go and tell the brothers." (That is the actual term used: brothers.) We might better say, go tell the family. "Do not be anxious." "Do not be afraid." Imagine words from Jesus to them and to us, "I see you quake at this news and all that lies before you. Jesus says to them, "Do not fear." This is not just a greeting. The joy, the sadness, the fear, the amazement pouring out of them. Oh, they must have quaked that second time, must have quaked, must have quaked at the sight.Īnd the brothers and sisters there immediately worship him. Yet, as they began to tell, with their imaginations filled with all that God has done, in the immediacy of a moment, Jesus appears a second time and stands in their midst. Go and I will meet you there, he says.3Īnd so, they go. He charges them, "Go to Galilee" - for there in Galilee, God is doing good things. Jerusalem give up your dead, and let the thousand stones shout for joy.Īs the women leave, shaking with this news, Jesus appears to them as the resurrected Lord. Now he rises, Christ in all his glory to meet the day. God has tilled, the earth trembled, creation groaned, the temple curtain torn and the planting and the seed lay in its ground, buried for three days. The women (and we) are charged with news: the resurrected Lord goes before us to meet us there - out there - where the ministry and the mission field waits. Go and tell the earth-quaking, soul-shaking, foundation-shuddering Good News. Galilee quaked at Jesus's word and intervention. Galilee is the place where people met God, and God met the people in the person of Jesus. The place where the Good News rooted itself like an oak of Mamre. Galilee, the place of miracles, and God's footsteps. Remember Galilee? That Matthean image, an icon, a typology for the world? The place where the real people live and the poor are fed good things. Go and tell the Good News to Galilee and let the earth quake there. The messenger tells them to go and do what they have been prepared to do. Even death has lost the victory of dust's gravitational pull. Their devising and manipulating failed - failed to keep God from God's appointed task. The powers, principalities of religion and statescraft were powerless in the end. Not dissimilar to Matthew's birth narrative, an angel messenger brings Good News.2 The women are told, and we are told, that God has acted. Mary Magdalene and the "other Mary" arrived at early dawn.1 This quaking inaugurates the great re-beginning of the world and all therein. The earth quaked at the resurrection of Jesus (Matthew 28, beginning at the second verse). In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We chat to Philip on his experience racing in one of the toughest events out there as well as life as a doctor-athlete during the Covid pandemic and how that impacted his outlook as an athlete.Heavenly Father, as I offer these words, I beseech you to see before you a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, and a sinner of your own redeeming. Philip Doyle is a rower and a doctor from Ireland who competed at Tokyo 2020 in the Men’s Double Scull’s.Īfter making his debut in 2018 he has risen the ranks to become one of the top contenders in the men’s double of the last Olympiad finishing in Silver position in the 2019 World Championships, qualifying for his first Olympic Games.
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