April 5
Easter Sunday
It is Easter morning.
Christ unwinds the burial bands
and lays them by:
the balm and the spikenard
the anointing of tears,
the soundless snow
of the white sleep of death
the body of Christ lays by.
He sets His feet on the dust.
He extends His open hands
with a supreme gesture of love.
He uncovers His heart.
It is not a ghost
who walks in the silver
of morning light;
the shadow that falls on the tombs
is the shadow of a man
of flesh and blood.
It is the shadow
of the virgin’s Child,
Who asked her to make Him a heart,
that He might die
to give life.
Now He uncovers His heart.
It has died,
and now He lays it wide
open to life;
He gives it to generations
and generations
of men.
-Caryll Houselander
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