John 20:1-9

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Easter Day, 9 April 2023: John 20:1-9

She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb.

In today’s Gospel Jesus doesn’t appear at all. In the half light of very early dawn St. Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb, and sees that it’s empty: but she entirely fails to understand what that means. We rightly call her the Apostle of the Apostles: but in the first place she runs off to convey to the disciples a message of non-faith.