The gospel reading for this Easter Morning is Luke, chapter 24, verse 1 through 12. Similar to all the other gospel accounts of that morning, some women go to the tomb of Jesus, and nothing is as they expected. Easter and the events of that morning are at the very heart of the Church, and central to everything that we believe as Christians. It is why we gather every Sunday, on the first day of the week, and worship the one an only risen Lord; the one who came to save us all.

Jesus was crucified the day before the sabbath. As his body was placed in the tomb, a group of women were watching. At the end of chapter 23, Luke tells us, “Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.”

Listen now to Luke’s version of the events of that most special morning.