8th April
Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim
and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”
So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the
priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched
the water’s edge, the
water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great
distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while
the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea)
was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in
the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel
passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry
ground.
JOSHUA 3:1, 5, 14-17
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary
Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from
the entrance. So she
came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved,
and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know
where they have put him!”
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
He asked her,
“Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking
he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell
me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
Jesus said to her,
“Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
Jesus said,
“Do
not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go
instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.’”
Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the
Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
JOHN 20:1-2, 11-18