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Luke 24: 1-7; Matthew 28: 1-10; Mark 16: 1-8; John 20: 1-10). Mark-16: 1-8 He is risen<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing is certain: If Jesus had not risen, we would never have heard anything about Him. The attitude of the women was that they had come to offer the last tribute to a dead body. The attitude of the disciples was that everything had ended in tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By far the best proof of the Resurrection is the existence of the Christian Church. Nothing else could have changed those sad and desperate men and women into people radiant with joy and inflamed with courage. The Resurrection is the central fact of the entire Christian faith. Because we believe in the Resurrection, certain things are followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1- Jesus is not the character of a book, but a living Presence. It is not enough to study the history of Jesus as we would study the life of a great historical figure. We may start from that, but we must go to meet Him and this encounter leads to transformation, change, witness to a new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2- Jesus is not a memory, but a Presence. The dearest memories fade away. The Greeks had an expression to describe time, which means time that erases everything. Long ago, time would have erased the memory of Jesus if it were not for the fact that He has remained a living Presence with us forever. Jesus is not someone we argue with, but someone we meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3- The Christian life is not the life of a person who knows about Jesus, but the life of a person who knows Jesus. There is an insurmountable difference in the world between knowing something about a person, and knowing a person. Almost everyone knows something about the President of Cuba or the President of the United States; but not so many know them. The greatest scholar in the world who knew everything there is to know about the Jesus of History is less than the humblest Christian, who knows Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4- The Christian faith has an endless quality. It must never stand still. Because our Lord is a living Lord there are new wonders and new truths waiting all the time for us to discover them. But the most precious thing about the passage (in Mark) is \u00a0in two words that do not appear in any other gospel. \u201cGo,” said the messenger, \u201ctell His disciples and Peter<\/em> that he is going before you to Galilee- there you will see him, as he told you.\u201d How Peter’s heart must have been moved by that message when he received it! He must have been tortured with the memory of his disloyalty, and suddenly a special message arrives for him. It is characteristic of Jesus to think, not of the evil that Peter had done to him, but of the remorse that was besieging him. Jesus was far more interested in comforting the penitent sinner than in punishing his sin. As someone has said: The most precious thing about Jesus is that he confirms his confidence in the same terrain in which we have suffered defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Nancy Marstaller for forwarding this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Marcos-16:1-8-! Ha-Resucitado<\/p>\n\n\n\n Una cosa es segura: Si Jes\u00fas no hubiera\nresucitado, nosotros nunca habr\u00edamos o\u00eddo nada acerca de \u00c9l. La actitud de las\nmujeres era que hab\u00edan ido a ofrecer el \u00faltimo tributo a un cuerpo muerto. La\nactitud de los disc\u00edpulos era que todo hab\u00eda acabado en tragedia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Con mucho la mejor prueba de la Resurrecci\u00f3n\nes la existencia de la Iglesia Cristiana. Ninguna otra cosa podr\u00eda haber\ncambiado a aquellos hombres y mujeres tristes y desesperados en personas\nradiantes de gozo e inflamadas de coraje. La Resurrecci\u00f3n es el hecho central\nde toda la fe cristiana. Porque creemos en la Resurrecci\u00f3n se siguen ciertas\ncosas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1- Jes\u00fas no es el personaje de un libro, sino\nuna Presencia viva. No basta con estudiar la historia de Jes\u00fas como\nestudiar\u00edamos la vida de una gran figura hist\u00f3rica. Puede que empecemos por\neso, pero debemos pasar a encontrarnos con El y este encuentro lleva a\ntransformaci\u00f3n, cambio, testimonio de una nueva vida <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2- Jes\u00fas no es un recuerdo, sino una\nPresencia. Las memorias m\u00e1s queridas se desvanecen. Los griegos ten\u00edan una\nexpresi\u00f3n para describir el tiempo, que quiere decir el tiempo que borra\ntodas las cosas<\/strong>. Hace mucho que el tiempo habr\u00eda borrado el recuerdo de\nJes\u00fas si no fuera porque \u00c9l ha seguido siendo una Presencia viva con nosotros\npara siempre. Jes\u00fas no es alguien de quien discutimos, sino Alguien con Quien\nnos encontramos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3– La vida cristiana no es la vida de una\npersona que sabe de Jes\u00fas, sino la vida de una persona que conoce a Jes\u00fas.<\/strong>\nHay una diferencia insalvable en el mundo entre saber algo acerca de una\npersona, y conocer a una persona. Casi todo el mundo sabe algo del presidente\nde Cuba o del Presidente de los Estados Unidos; pero no tantos los conocen. El\nm\u00e1s grande erudito del mundo que supiera todo lo que se puede saber acerca del\nJes\u00fas de la Historia es menos que el cristiano m\u00e1s humilde, que Le conoce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4- La fe cristiana tiene una cualidad\ninterminable. No debe quedarse nunca parada. Porque nuestro Se\u00f1or es un Se\u00f1or\nvivo hay nuevas maravillas y nuevas verdades esperando todo el tiempo a que las\ndescubramos. Pero lo m\u00e1s precioso de este pasaje est\u00e1 en dos palabras que no aparecen\nen ning\u00fan otro evangelio. Id -dijo el\nmensajero, decid a Sus disc\u00edpulos y a Pedro.<\/strong> \u00a1C\u00f3mo tiene que haber\nemocionado el coraz\u00f3n de Pedro ese mensaje cuando lo recibi\u00f3! Debe-de haber\nestado torturado con el recuerdo de su deslealtad, y de pronto llega un mensaje\nespecial para \u00e9l. Es caracter\u00edstico de Jes\u00fas el pensar, no en el mal que Pedro\nLe hab\u00eda hecho, sino en el remordimiento que le estaba asediando. Jes\u00fas ten\u00eda\nmucho m\u00e1s inter\u00e9s en confortar al pecador penitente que en castigar su pecado.\nComo ha dicho alguien: Lo m\u00e1s precioso de Jes\u00fas es que nos confirma Su\nconfianza en el mismo terreno en que hemos sufrido una derrota.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Velasco Friends Meeting is our Sister Meeting in Cuba] Easter (or Resurrection Sunday) Commemorates the resurrection of Jesus. Luke 24: 1-7; Matthew 28: 1-10; Mark 16: 1-8; John 20: 1-10). Mark-16: 1-8 He is risen! One thing is certain: If … Continue reading Domingo de Pascua o de Resurrecci\u00f3n: Conmemora\nla resurrecci\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas (Lucas 24:1-7; Mateo 28: 1-10; Marcos 16: 1-8; Juan\n20:1-10). <\/h2>\n\n\n\n