Now We Know—The Tomb is Empty

a homily for the Easter Vigil

Robert Anning Bell The Women Going to the Sepulcher 1912

Luke 24.1-12

•

Christmas and Easter are the only celebrations of the church that begin at night. That is because they mark mysteries that began in darkness—the birth of the Lord and his resurrection from the dead.

According to the Gospel that we have just heard, in the early dawn, before the light of…