Resurrection refuted

Monday,
April 2, 2018
Octave of Easter, Monday
1st Reading: Acts 2:14, 22-33
Gospel: Matthew 28:8-15
So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
The obstinacy of the Jewish authorities made them more astute in the art of truth manipulation. The resurrection of Jesus should have settled all doubts about his identity as Messiah. But, remaining obstinate, the Jewish religious leaders tried their best to suppress the truth. They never saw Jesus in person after his resurrection. Could Jesus have converted them if he showed himself to them in his resurrected state? Probably yes. In the world of possibilities everything is supposed to be possible. But where obstinacy is involved, it could be like flogging a dead horse.
Jesus was consistent in his decision not to give in to the clamor of the Jews for spectacular things. At Calvary they jeered at him and asked him to come down from the cross by his own power so they’d believe in him. He did not. After the resurrection he did not appear to the religious leaders to take them to task for their unbelief. He had nothing to prove really. Had he done so, they’d still come up with strategies to twist reality. That is because obstinacy had made them more astute in manipulating the truth. But their strategies exposed their moral and mental bankruptcy. When they instructed the guards to spread the news that Jesus’ body was stolen while they were asleep, did they realize they were asking the guards to testify on something they didn’t witness because they were sleeping when it happened?
The resurrection is about abandoned tombs, shattered lies and triumph over death. May grace soften our hearts and make us realize that as beneficiaries of the resurrection we are supposed to live in the light of truth. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.

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