REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE OCTAVE OF EASTER 1ST APRIL 2024
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE OCTAVE OF EASTER 1ST APRIL 2024 Acts 2:14, 22-32; Matthew 28:8-15 The Glory of the Resurrection is unsurmountable Publicity is key to any business and indeed any event. This is because the patronage of others is important if the establish venture is to be successful. Little wonder some persons and bodies form the habit of televising their charitable acts so that they may form a public image of good and generous. This is not the case with the glory of the resurrection. Whatever is of God does not rest on public opinion. In the gospel reading of today, the Chief priests bribed the soldiers to lie that Jesus did not resurrect and to rather say that it was the disciples who came to steal the body while they (the soldiers) were asleep. If the testimony of the resurrection of Jesus Christ was to be dependent on the publicity of men, then the fake rumour that the soldiers told would have crumbled the resurrection testimony. God did not prevent the soldiers ...