Let’s do some light philosophy

● God is ineffable

● God is above our nature

● St. Thomas Aquinas gives us the 5 proofs for God’s existence

○ But according to the Butler’s Lives of the Saints, St. Thomas says at the end of his life, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me”

● At the same time

● God becomes man

● God enters into our time and nature

● God allows Himself to speak our language and encounter us

● What a strange God we have ○ I’m stealing that line from Bishop Barron

Let us pray

● Take a deep breath

● Pray for the grace. We want to step into the mystery.

● Imagine the place. See the tomb. Hear the morning. Smell the tomb. Taste the tomb. Feel the tomb. Engage all your senses in this moment of prayer

● Imagine the people, John and Peter.

● Act out the scene.

● Find Jesus and speak to Jesus

● Our Father

John 20: 3-10 - So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned home.

People who gave their lives but didn’t understand

● John 3

● Nicodemus

● This guy is a leader in the Jewish community

● He trained Rabbis

● He knows the Torah

● He comes to Jesus in the night to try to understand what this man is doing

● Even though he knows he keeps asking questions.

● John 20

● St. Peter

● This guy is trying to work and care for his family

● His life is totally changed by his encounter with Christ

● He sees the feeding of the 5k, he sees the raising of Lazarus, he is there at the Transfiguration, he knows what Jesus is doing

● When St. Peter sees the empty tomb he doesn’t understand

Gravissimum Educationis (The Gravity/Importance of Education, 1965)

Pope Paul VI

● Catholic Schools are to be, “proclaiming the mystery of salvation to all” and restore “all things in Christ” (preamble). ● While people mature we as teachers are called to , “gradually introduce the knowledge of the mystery of salvation” (2).

We have the responsibility of “announcing the way of salvation to all men, of communicating the life of Christ to those who believe, and…of assisting men to be able to come to the fullness of this life” (4).

As teachers our “life as much as by [our] instruction bears witness to Christ, the unique Teacher” (8).