Reality

It has been several days since I have been able to make an entry due to schedule and travel.  We are still in the season of Eastertide, or Paschal-tide.  We are still focused on the surprise of the resurrection.  It is not something that is facilely incorporated into one's worldview.  It never has been.  It is perhaps a bias of every age that we think this "resurrection" is a primitive superstition that we have outgrown - or should outgrow.  But the gospels record substantial struggle with the reality of the resurrection in the very days in which it occurred.  As my homilist observed this morning, the New Testament is very "modern" in the sense that it is dealing with "news" and a reporting of observations and empirical evidence.  It is recording these data in a way quite objectively.  Mark writes:

"And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them." (Mark 16:13)

In our day of so-called "inconvenient truths", this is the original inconvenient truth:  Christ is risen.  As the homilist said this morning, and as many have observed over the centuries, what purpose would it serve to attempt to keep a failed and humiliated political insurgency going?  Most had given up (but not all); most had gone back to their lives.  But reality - a new reality - intervened. Alleluia.  Christ is risen.  Alleluia.