MEDITATION OF THE DAY from Magnificat com
SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS
Easter Monday
The
Resurrection of the Lord is the renewal of human nature, and the renewal, re-creation,
and return to immortality of the first Adam who was swallowed up by death
because of sin, and through death went back to the earth from which he was
formed. In the beginning nobody saw Adam being made and brought to life, for no
one existed yet at that time. However, once he had received the breath of life
breathed into him by God (Gn 2:7), a woman was the first to see him, for Eve
was the first human being after him. In the same way, no one saw the second
Adam, that is the Lord, rising from the dead, since none of his disciples were
present and the soldiers keeping the tomb had been shaken with fear and became
like dead men. But after the Resurrection it was a woman who saw him first of
all ....
There
is something which the Evangelists tell us in a veiled way, but which I shall reveal
to your charity. As was right and just, the Mother of God was the first person to
receive from the Lord the Good News of the Resurrection, and she saw him risen
and had the joy of his divine words before anyone else. She not only beheld him
with her eyes and heard him with her ears, but was the first and only person to
touch with her hands his most pure feet. If the Evangelists do not say all this
openly it is because they do not want to put forward his Mother as a witness, lest
they give unbelievers grounds for suspicion.
Saint Gregory Palamas
(+1359) was a monk and
Archbishop of Thessalonica.
Grcgory Palamas (Saint) From The Homilies, Christopher Veniamln, Ed. and Tr. The Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, UK. Published by Mount Thabor Publishing, 2009. www.thaborian.corn. Used with pemission.
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