After listening to the Word of God, to this passage of the Gospel, three things come to me.
First: the announcement. There is an announcement there: the Lord has risen. That announcement that from the earliest times of the Christians went from mouth to mouth; it was the greeting: the Lord has risen. And the women, who went to anoint in the Lord's body, found themselves in a surprise. Surprise ... God's announcements are always surprises, because our God is the God of surprises. It is so from the beginning of the history of salvation, from our father Abraham, God surprises you: "But, go, go, leave, leave your land and go". And there is always a surprise after another. God can not make an announcement without surprising us. And the surprise is what moves your heart, which touches you right there, where you do not expect it. To say it a little with the language of the young: surprise is a low blow; you do not expect it. And He goes and moves you. First: the announcement made a surprise.
Second: the rush. Women run, hurry to say: "But, we found this!". The surprises of God set us on the road, immediately, without waiting. And so they run to see. And Peter and John run. The shepherds, that Christmas night, run: "Let's go to Bethlehem to see what the angels told us". And the Samaritan woman runs to tell her people: "This is new: I found a man who told me everything I did". And people knew the things this had done. And those people, run, leave what he is doing, even the housewife leaves the potatoes in the pot - she will find them burned - but the important thing is to go, run, to see that surprise, that announcement. Even today it happens. In our neighborhoods, in villages when something extraordinary happens, people run to see. Go in a hurry. Andrea, did not waste time and in a hurry he went to Peter to tell him: "We found the Messiah". The surprises, the good news, are always like that: in a hurry. In the Gospel there is one that takes some time; he does not want to risk it. But the Lord is good, waiting for him with love, it is Thomas. "I will believe when I see the wounds," he says. The Lord also has patience for those who do not go so fast.
The announcement-surprise, the response in a hurry and the third that I would like to tell you today is a question: "And me? My heart is open to the surprises of God, I am able to go in a hurry or always with that chant: "But, tomorrow will I see, tomorrow, tomorrow?". What's the surprise to me? Giovanni and Pietro ran to the tomb. Di Giovanni il Gangelo tells us: "Believe". Even Peter: "Believe", but in his own way, with faith a little mixed with the remorse of having denied the Lord. The announcement made surprise, the ride \ go in a hurry, and the question: "And I, today, in this Easter 2018, what am I doing? What do you do?
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