Do Not Be Afraid to Tell What You Have Seen
“For the Souls in Purgatory – Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord”
John 20:18
Mary Magdalene ran from the tomb with a message burning in her heart. Easter asks each of us: what have you seen, and are you willing to say so?
Grace Prayed For
Lord, give us the courage to share the encounters with your grace that have changed us, even when others may not yet believe.
Reflection
Seven words. ‘I have seen the Lord.’ In the ancient world, a woman’s testimony carried little legal weight. Mary Magdalene almost certainly knew this. She told them anyway.
This is the first proclamation of the Resurrection — not delivered by a scholar or a priest, but by someone who had wept so long at the tomb that she mistook Jesus for the gardener. Her qualification for apostleship was not position or learning. It was encounter. She had seen him, spoken with him, been called by name. That was enough.
For small groups gathering in the wake of Easter, this moment carries a practical and personal challenge. We are not merely studying the Resurrection as a theological proposition. We are being invited to name our own encounters — the moments when something shifted, when grace broke through, when we sensed we were known and loved in ways that exceed explanation.
Most of us have such moments. Many of us have never told anyone about them. Perhaps we feared they would not be believed. Perhaps we suspected they were too small, too ordinary, too private. Mary Magdalene’s seven words remind us that the most powerful witness is simply specific testimony: not ‘God is good in general’ but ‘I have seen the Lord — in this moment, in this way, and it changed me.’
In your group time today, consider making space for this kind of sharing. Not argument or doctrine, but testimony. What have you seen? Where has the Risen Christ met you on your own road, called you by name, broken through grief or doubt or routine?
Tell what you have seen. The telling itself is an act of faith — and sometimes it is the thing that helps another person find the courage to say, ‘Yes. Me too.’
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Sharing
Jesus last words on Earth were to his disciples, can be found in Matthew Chap 28 when Jesus told his disciples, “Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Jesus calls all of us to share in his redemptive mission here on Earth. I would ask you to share this Scripture reflection with your family, your friends and your acquaintances, and then share it with a couple of individuals that you may may not be comfortable sharing with, keeping in mind always the words of Jesus, And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age
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