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"My first monastic Triduum occurred well over a decade ago. This Easter, it was I who preached the homily at the Resurrection Eucharist. What can one add to a liturgy that celebrates the resurrection promise into fact? I tried. The scripture for the day was simple enough: the story of two disciples running to a vacant tomb, then returning to their homes (John 20:1-10). For them, I suggested, the resurrection had not yet occurred - for when it does, one can never go home again. Even Judas could not escape the Easter event. He hanged himself. But tradition tells us that on Holy Saturday Jesus "descended into hell." This time it must have been Jesus who kissed Judas, repeating the same words as in the garden: 'Friend, why are you here?' But this time they became a resurrection invitation to Judas: 'Follow me.' Jesus knows the way out, even out of hell. Together they walked, and all of creation walked with them - through the Red Sea to death's other side. If at easter the slaughtered lamb becomes the Good Shepherd, then God's final word to everything must be 'Yes!' (2 Cor. 1:19)." -W. Paul Jones