Easter Monday
First reading – Acts 2:14,22-33
“You have made known the way of life to me, you will fill me with gladness through your presence”. This is the experience of resurrection. Knowing the way of life. The way of life which cannot be corrupted, which cannot be abandoned to Hades. The way of life which can never be conquered by the power of death. This life is made known to man in Jesus Christ. This experience is not just an epistemological experience. It is not just a knowledge. But it is a concrete reality. That is what we can read in the next sentence. “You fill me with gladness through your presence”. God filling man with gladness by His presence. The corruption of decay and death come from deprivation and separation. This is transformed. The decay and death are substituted with gladness. Gladness of fullness and integrity. This gladness comes from the presence of the Lord in me. He fills me with His presence which gives me gladness. This pure gladness is the Paschal Joy. The joy that Lord is present in us and fills us. Jesus going out of the tomb is the human nature liberated by gladness by the presence of the Lord in us. Gladness of reconciliation and forgiveness. Let’s reflect: Am I experiencing the presence of Resurrected Lord in me?