He Is Risen!! Let Us Glorify the Risen Lord!

 

    As previously mentioned the resurrection of Our Lord is of paramount importance to the Christian Faith. He had risen form the dead, He has defeated Death to show that He is Lord over Life and Death. This resurrection is a testament of His Power and Authority, indicative of His divinity, when He said that He has the power to lay down and take up again His life. This belief in Christ, His lordship over life and death is the hope of the eternal life that He promises. 

    While the First Mystery is a meditation on His resurrection, it is also a moment for us to meditate on our future resurrection. As the Catholic Faith Professes in our Creeds, indeed most of Christianity professes a bodily resurrection, 

         "I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins, and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen."  - Nicene Creed

I included the "preamble" that has the Holy Ghost mentioned because the act of Christ's resurrection, and our future resurrection is an action of the Holy Trinity, and not one Holy Person of the Holy Trinity acting alone. Christ is the Lord over life and death, and the Holy Ghost, as professed, is the giver of life. So, for one to be given life, they partake of action by the Holy Ghost and is subject to the rule of Christ, both who act in union as to the Divine Will of the Father. The action of the resurrection is a Trinitarian action, meaning by act and will of all three Holy Persons of the Holy Trinity, CCC 648 - 650. 

For us as Christians we participate in Christ's resurrection in two ways. First, is through Baptism. We die to sin and are risen in Christ. Just as Christ offered Himself as a sin offering according to the Mosaic and Levitical laws, we partake in His eternal and infinite sacrifice uniting our natures to the sacrifice. His Divine and Human natures and our sinful human nature. His sin offering, and our sin. Our baptism is our metaphysical death and resurrection, a Trinitarian act, as a proper baptism is done "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost". Second, we participate in the resurrection to come, namely the resurrection that will happen at the Second Coming of Christ and the General Judgement. 

St. Aquinas had written a great deal on the Resurrection, both the Resurrection of Jesus, and His glorified nature afterwards resemblant of the powers of the soul over the body (first shown in the Transfiguration of Christ), and the general resurrection of which we profess and hope for. He wrote of the resurrection of those who will go onto glory in God and those who will go on to damnation.

The Scriptural Rosary is:

1. The First Glorious Mystery is: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1. Pater Noster …
2. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. (Luke 24:1-2)
1. Ave Maria ...
3. But when they went in they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel; and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." (Luke 24:3-5)
1. Ave Maria …
4. "Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise." (Luke 24:6-7)
1. Ave Maria …
5. And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. (Luke 24:8-9)
1. Ave Maria …
6. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Jo-anna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. (Luke 24:10-11)
1. Ave Maria …
7. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen clothes by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened" (Luke 24:12)
1. Ave Maria …
8. That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem … While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. (Luke 24:13a, 15)
1. Ave Maria …
9. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." (Luke 24:22-24)
1. Ave Maria …
10. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight. (Luke 24:30-31)
1. Ave Maria …
11. And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who said, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" (Luke 24:33-34)
1. Ave Maria …
12. O My Jesus …
13. Gloria Patri …