Tag: Easter Sunday

Those Who Went to the Tomb

Those Who Went to the Tomb

The Easter Vigil Gospel reminds us of “the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus.”  We cannot know how many women there were because, further on, Luke names “Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James and the others who accompanied them,” but what we do know is that they went together. Were they an improvised group, friends, or perhaps even a community? Whatever the case, they needed company to dare to go out early that Sunday morning.

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