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JESUS IS RISEN

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week,

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went

to look at the tomb.

There was a violent earthquake, for an angel

of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to

the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes

were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him

that they shook  and became like dead men.

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know

that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

He is not here; he has risen, just as He said.

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HE IS RISEN

HE IS RISEN

” We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death,

so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the power of

the Father, so we too might live and behave in newness of Life.

For if we have become one with Him by sharing in his death,

we shall also be one with Him in sharing His resurrection.

We know that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him

in order that our body which is the instrument of sin might

be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no

longer be the slaves of sin.

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