Verse and Artwork by
Rev’d Paul Collings
Glory to you, O Christ:
by your death you have destroyed death
and by your resurrection you have brought life and immortality to light.
Jesus appears to Mary of Magdala in the garden
The one who loved Jesus most
Risen Lord, though we are separated from those we love and our hearts are weighed with grief, speak to us by name and let us feel the joy of your presence.
Alleluia. Christ is risen He is risen indeed. Alleluia
This tear-laden, poignant recognition scene deserves to be contemplated slowly, from within the heart of Mary Magdalene. Peter and John have looked at the empty tomb and returned to the upper room. But Mary is distraught, thinking only of the Jesus whose death she has witnessed, longing at least to see his body. Is it her tears that keep her from recognising Jesus? Suddenly she hears a familiar voice call her name. Her world is transformed: I have seen the Lord. She looks across the boundary between life and death, which has met its master in Jesus.
1 They’ve taken him,
I know not where,
His battered body
Laid with care.
I came today,
His form to ‘noint
To dress the scars-
Cruel nail points.
2 “O Gardner, friend
Where has he gone?
Please tell me now
What you have done
With my dear Lord,
His sacred form,
That lived to bless
Our lives adorn.”
3 “Mary, my child.”
“Rabboni Lord
How can it be
I saw - you died”
I stretched my hand
To reach his own.
“Not yet my child”
His voice intoned.
4 “Go to my friends,
My bothers tell
What you have seen
And all is well.
I must Ascend,
My father see;
Go now sweet friend
Go now I plea.”
5 With heart ablaze,
And tears now dried
I ran and ran
So overjoyed.
I told them all
Of the blessed scene.
The Lord is risen
My eyes have seen.
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