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notes. I'm Father Jim Martin. I'm about to lead you through a traditional Jesuit prayer

that will help you notice where God has been in your day. But first, let's begin with our weekly reflection, which is released every Sunday.

I'm not sure about you, but my entire faith rests on Easter.

That's a pretty big statement I know, so let me unpack it a bit. As I see it,

Easter changes everything. Just think about the state of the disciples immediately after the

crucifixion. Think about what they were feeling. Their leader, their hero, their friend had been

executed in the most public, gruesome, and shameful way imaginable.

Most of them, except for a handful of faithful women, had abandoned Jesus after his arrest and trial.

By the evening of Good Friday, they were cowering behind closed doors,

worried that they too would be rounded up by the Roman soldiers,

maybe the same ones who had killed Jesus.

But then on Easter Sunday everything changes.

He is risen, the most dramatic turnabout in all of history.

And to whom does he show himself first?

Another surprise.

Not to Peter, the putative leader of the

apostles, but to Mary Magdalene. And remember, in the time between when Mary Magdalene

encounters the risen Christ and when she announces the news of his resurrection to the others,

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