Easter Sunday – 05th April 2026
Dear brothers and sisters,
On Easter morning, the Gospel takes us again to the tomb. It is still early, the Gospel says, and it is still dark. Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb. She goes with a heavy heart, she goes crying, she goes without hope. For her, Jesus is dead, and when she arrives and sees that the stone has been taken away, her first thought is not that Jesus has risen, but that someone has taken the body of the Lord.
How similar we are to Mary Magdalene. Many times, God has done miracles in our lives, but we see only the problems. God opens a door, and we think it is a loss. God begins something new, and we think everything is finished.
Mary runs to Peter and the other disciple. And they run to the tomb. This Gospel is full of running. Mary runs, Peter runs, John runs. When something important happens, people run. When you love, you run. When you hope, you run. When you care, you run.
John arrives first, he bends down, sees the cloths, but he does not go in. Peter arrives and goes into the tomb. Then John also goes in, and the Gospel says something very beautiful and very deep: “He saw and he believed.”
What did he see? He did not see Jesus. He saw an empty tomb. He saw the cloths lying there. He saw small signs. And from these small signs, faith was born.
This is our faith. We do not see Jesus with our eyes, but we see his signs: a prayer that gives us peace, forgiveness that changes a heart, a family that stays together, a person who rises after a fall, a hope that does not die. And from these small signs, faith is born: He is alive.