Easter 2023: They Went to the One they Thought was Dead

In all four Gospels, it is women who are the first witnesses of the empty tomb and the Resurrected Christ. But they did not go to the tomb believing that they would discover Christ alive, but rather they went to the one they thought was dead. They were sorrowful, disappointed, and hopeless. But they went to the tomb anyway. There is much that we can learn from these women. When we are sorrowful, disappointed, and hopeless, let us go to the One we think is dead, so that He who Lives can encounter us and bring our death back to life.