Today is a day of emptiness for the Church. Jesus is dead. Our source of right living is no more. Peter is an empty shell of a man . His brother can offer no comfort. The close disciples sleep in the upper room the others are scattered throughout the city, Some have even returned to their homes remote from Jerusalem. But the devastation in their hearts is shared by all. Jesus their teacher, their hope for change, their hope for freedom, their hope for favour from God lies rotting in a borrowed tomb. Where are the blessings promised by the Lord?

Dear Lord let me sincerely share in the dejection of your disciples and let daily cares of my life not absorb me to forgetfulness of you.

Has there ever been such a day as today before or after this . The night of the Passover must have been similarly momentous for the families preparing to flee with Moses and worse for those who lost their first-borns. But Moses was still there visible as a leader. And since then there has been and still are days and nights of slaughter. But even Hiroshima is not of such terror as today .The author of life is dead.  What will happen to our being. " The God of the living and the dead" is dead.

Dear God  send your Spirit into the hearts of all your people and let the emptiness of the whited sepulchres be open to receive the grace that should be spread by your sacraments that are in their charge.