Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor.
“Looking Ahead” is a reflection on the Sunday readings, for Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, by Father Perry.
By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor
Early Easter morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb.
She saw the stone removed and ran to tell the disciples: “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”
Peter and John ran to the tomb, went in, and saw the burial cloths there.
The Gospel says simply that they “saw and believed.”
Surely, this is one of the most simple yet most profound declarations of faith: they “saw and believed.”
It is even more profound because the very next sentence of the Gospel tells us: “For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead.”
Is it possible to see, to believe, to trust, and yet not fully know?
This is, in fact, the journey of faith for all of us.
Does anyone ever fully know? Is it possible that we can understand — especially the great mysteries of faith — so fully that there is nothing more to learn, to know, to appreciate?
No doubt it is the “know-it-all” who perhaps knows less than the person of “simple faith.”
Or to say it another way — there are many ways to know.
Shema prayer — to know and to love the Lord “with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
