Ch. 10: The Resurrection as a Historical and Transcendent Event

"Mary Magdalene and the holy women who came to finish anointing the body of Jesus... were the first to encounter the Risen One." (CCC 641)

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"At Jesus' Resurrection his body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: he shares the divine life in his glorious state, so that St. Paul can say that Christ is 'the man of heaven.'" (CCC 646)

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Only the "truly blessed Night... deserved to know the time and the hour when Christ rose from the realm of the dead." (CCC 647)

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The Apostles "were the next to whom Jesus appears: first Peter, then the Twelve." (CCC 641)

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The Resurrection "remains at the very heart of the mystery of faith as something that transcends and surpasses history" (CCC 647)

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"The first element we encounter in the framework of the Easter events is the empty tomb" (CCC 640)

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Peter and the Twelve are the primary 'witnesses to his Resurrection,' but they are not the only ones -- Paul speaks clearly of more than 500 person to whom Jesus appeared on a single occasion and also of James and of all the apostles." (CCC 642)

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"Given all these testimonies, Christ's Resurrection cannot be interpreted as something outside the physical order, and it is impossible not to acknowledge it as an historical fact." (CCC 641)

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"No one was an eye witness to Christ's Resurrection and no evangelist describes it." (CCC647)

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"Christ's Resurrection is essentially different" than Lazarus' return to life. "In his risen body he passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space." (CCC 646)

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