She saw that the stone had
had been taken away from the tomb.
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” writes Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
in The Little Prince. Easter is just like that: a revelation of the invisible,
the irruption of the divine into the ordinary fabric of our time,
a presence that manifests itself in the form of absence.
The Risen One does not show himself
as a spectacular apparition that imposes faith with the force of evidence,
but allows himself to be discovered in unexpected signs, in whispered
words, in encounters that warm the heart.
When we say, “the end,”
God chooses to start again.
And he does so by starting again from
and with a woman: Mary Magdalene,
the disciple whose eyes were dried of tears,
the first to proclaim the Risen One,
“Apostle to the apostles,”
as defined by St. Thomas Aquinas.
© Monache benedettine del monastero di Sant’Anna a Bastia Umbra,
Schizzi di Vangelo, Paoline 2025
