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�It was still dark�, outside and especially dark in the heart of Mary of Magdala who went to the tomb. Perhaps she remembered the days before the Passion, when she dried Jesus� feet after having wet them with precious ointment, and the years, few but intense, spent with that prophet. Upon arriving to the tomb she saw that the stone had been moved away. She did not even enter. She ran immediately to Peter and John and told them: �They have taken the Lord out of the tomb!� She had thought that they did not want him, not even dead. And she added with sadness: �we don�t know where they have put him�. Mary�s sadness for the loss of the Lord, even if only for his dead body, is a slap to our coldness and our forgetfulness of Jesus while living. This woman is a great model for all believers. Only if we have the same feelings in our hearts as Mary will it be possible to meet the risen Lord. Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved �ran� immediately to the empty tomb. After having begun to follow the Lord together, during the Passion, even if from afar, now they find themselves �running together� to be close to him. This run expresses well the anxiousness of every disciple and of every community, which seeks the Lord. Perhaps we too should start to run again. Our pace has become too slow; perhaps because we are burdened by our love for ourselves. We must try to run again. Easter is also hurry, the hurry to tell everyone: �Christ is risen, truly he is risen!�
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