The apostles and many of the disciples would not believe either Mary Magdalene or the two men who
were on their way to Emmaus and others whom the Lord had appeared to, and so it was the Lord
himself ultimately who had to convince the eleven, that is, the apostles, of his resurrection,
and it is that resurrection that is one of the central tenets of our faith. Indeed, when we speak
of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we do not speak merely of his resurrection in the mind and
the heart of the believers, that is, they kept his remembrance in their heart, and it is from this
remembrance that the faith developed. We speak here of the real physical bodily resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead, the same Jesus Christ who was crucified and was buried in the
tomb outside of the chosen city of Jerusalem, that same Jesus Christ whose eternal origins
are from the Father. He was not merely remembered by the disciples, and from that memory the faith
developed, but he truly rose victorious over death in his sacred humanity, and that is the key
to the understanding of our faith, and indeed, it is the key to understand that the faith does not
develop in the sense that our Lord is simply remembered by his disciples, and their remembrance
of him becomes tenant of faith.
But it is that same Christ who taught the apostles before his crucifixion and death, who rose from the
dead, confirming them in the faith, that is, all those doctrines that he had taught, and finally
commissions them before his ascension to the Father to go forth and to teach these truths to the
whole world. And so, we have the absolute assurance in the resurrection of Jesus Christ that all that
we follow as members of the Catholic Church,
all of whose meditations and dictionaries we carry across the world, all those documents and
Rincon has displays before us, which promote the true doctrines of Jesus Christ, those doctrines that are to go out to the whole world, and to bring them the good news of salvation, and ultimately, that good news is accepted by those who come to believe that Jesus Christ truly rose, body and soul,
from the dead, the same Jesus Christ who three days before, was taken by the chosen people, and crucified under Pontius Pilate, and so, he is not naturallyosc sinners, but isgaspist.
He is not naturallyosc, nor such as the disciples who knew Jesus was a demonic, God who provided faith, spirit and truth from his original stone. But these doctrines are the truths of the life.
and crucified under Pontius Pilate, and so we have no reason to hesitate in going forth and
giving that doctrine to the world, for the Lord in his resurrection has certainly shown us that he
is completely victorious over that primary effect of sin that is our death, and he has opened the
gates of heaven again to all men who come to believe that he truly was first incarnated in
the flesh, that flesh once come to full stature, was crucified, and died for our sins, and on the third
day, as scripture had told from of old, he truly rose again victorious from the dead, and so let us
have none of the nonsense that would merely postulate that our faith is based on the memory
of the twelve apostles, and as they ruminated on those memories, they came up with doctrines, and so
we too, in ruminating
on the
memory of Jesus Christ, can come up with our own doctrine and our own tenets. We follow a faith that
was fully in the minds and the hearts of the apostles from the beginning. We need not ask the
question, would Saint Peter have been able to tell us about the doctrine of the co-redemption of our
lady, or of the ascension of our Lord into heaven? He knew them full well. He knew them better than
any of us could possibly ever imagine to know in our lives, because
as the vicar of Christ, he was entrusted with all the doctrines of Jesus Christ, and so he knew them
certainly at the highest level after the blessed mother of God than any other soul who has ever
come into this world, and so our faith is rooted on the reality of Jesus's incarnation, passion, death,
and resurrection, and that is why we truly have that hope that is in us, because our Lord has
proven in his sacred humanity,
that he was truly God, and truly man, and so he was the savior of the world, and he has come to save
that world, not merely at the time of his physical presence in this world, but through his church
until the end of time, for his church was to go forth and to preach all those saving doctrines,
and ultimately that doctrine that will convince everybody that Satan no longer has any sway over
them, except that sway over them, and that sway over them, and that sway over them, and that sway
that they choose to give him, for he truly has risen from the dead, and he marches forth in his
mystical body until the end of time, seeking always and everywhere to release us from slavery to sin,
making us children of the light, children of the resurrection, so after persevering in this life,
through the trials and the tribulations, the persecutions, and all that attempts to lead us
away from Jesus Christ, after persevering,
in that faith, that is, after our union with his crucifixion, we may enter into the glory of his
resurrection for all eternity, enjoying our good God in heaven with all the angels and with all the saints.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.