Victory! He is Risen! Alleluia

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The Lord's right hand has triumphed;
his right hand raised me up.
I shall not die, I shall live
and recount his deeds.
Psalm 117

Easter Songs of Joy and Praise:

  For Jesus is our Hope ...

               
                              May the Peoples Praise You  HERE  
         
                                                           (with lyrics)   HERE                         
                                     
                                                                       (and see scroll at top of the Home Page for more music)

THE GOSPEL John 20: 1-9
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. 'They have taken the Lord out of the tomb' she said 'and we don't know where they have put him.'
The Resurrection Narrative

So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

O Filii et Filiae 

“But what they find, in the light of dawn, was something completely unexpected.”