Homily for Tuesday
in the Octave
of Easter
April 19,
2022
John 20: 11-18
Christian
Brothers, St. Joseph Residence, New Rochelle
“She thought it was the gardener” (John
20: 15).
One commentator thinks Mary was right. The 1st Adam tended the garden that God created for humanity’s delight, the original earthly paradise. The 2d Adam restores us to the delights that God intends for us, to a new and everlasting paradise. “In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me; there he revives my soul” (Ps 23:2-3 JB).
The new Adam makes new what was old,
the garden from which sinners were expelled and blocked by “the cherubim with
the fiery revolving sword” from access “to the tree of life” (Gen 3:24). Now the cross has become the tree of life to
which sinners have access, the tree rooted in heaven, the tree watered by the
blood of a gardener named Jesus.
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