Look at the empty tomb
and take part in the scene
along with all who have gone:
with Mary Magdalene,
with those who have run
by her testimony,
to see what has happened
while the earth slept.
Only he is the witness,
silent witness of stone,
of the definitive fact
announcing a new era …
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Notice how the astonishment
is giving way to faith,
as of the deepest fear
becomes the most faithful value;
that changes everything,
although difficult to understand,
until their eyes see no more
the Friend who left:
today they see a glorious body
to whom they saw suffering,
that appears victorious
after a cruel death.
José García Velázquez