"Why are you crying?"

"Las Tres Marias at the Empty Tomb" (Mary Magdalene, Mary Caifas and Mary Salome) by Angel Rodriguez-Diaz painting at San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, in commemoration of the cathedral's 275th anniversary in 2006 “They have taken the Lord out of his tomb and we do not know where they have laid him,” Mary Magdalene said, and we can say this with her in times of doubt and questioning. Then there’s that last glorious chapter of Saint Luke, where Jesus says, “Why are you so perturbed? Why do questions arise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself. Touch me and see.”  Yes, sometimes it is most surely an exercise of faith for us to see Christ, especially in each other. But it is through such exercise that we grow, and the joy of our calling assures us we are on the right path. Most certainly, it is easier to believe now that the sun warms us, and we know that buds will appear on the sycamore trees in the wasteland across the street, that life will spring out of the dull clods of that littered park. There are wars and rumors of war, poverty and plague, hunger and pain. Still, the sap is rising, again there is the resurrection of spring, God’s continuing promise to us that he is with us always, with his comfort and joy, if we will only ask. ~Dorothy Day, in Dorothy Day: Selected Writings

Alleluia!

"At daybreak on the first day of the week 

the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus 

took the spices they had prepared

and went to the tomb.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb;

but when they entered,

they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

While they were puzzling over this, behold,

two men in dazzling garments appeared to them.

They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. 

They said to them,

“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?

He is not here, but he has been raised.

Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee, 

that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners

and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”

And they remembered his words.

Then they returned from the tomb

and announced all these things to the eleven

and to all the others."

Gospel of Luke

Chapter 24:1-12

"Las tres Marias at the Empty Tomb" 

(Mary Magdalene, Mary Caifas, Mary Salome)

by Angel Rodriguez-Dias

[In commemoration of the 275th Anniversary of 

San Fernando Cathedral, 

1731-2004, 

San Antonio, Texas]

my nativities, No. Cuatro

Country side, Perú

Bangladesh, from Ten Thousand Villages

I found this gem from Mexico at el mercado 

in downtown San Antonio