Gospel (Jn 20,1-9) - On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb in the morning, while it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. She then ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them: "They have taken the Lord away from the tomb and we don't know where they have put him!". Peter then went out together with the other disciple and they went to the tomb. They both ran together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down, saw the sheets laid there, but did not enter. Meanwhile, Simon Peter also arrived, following him, and entered the tomb and observed the cloths placed there, and the shroud - which had been on his head - not placed there with the cloths, but wrapped in a separate place. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in and saw and believed. In fact they had not yet understood the Scripture, that is, that he had to rise from the dead.

The commentary on the Gospel by Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

those three women the gospel tells us about do not abandon Jesus even when he is dead. Such is their love. The attitude of the disciples ensnared by fear is very different: they fled at the moment of capture in Gethsemane and are now still locked in the cenacle. Jesus, meanwhile, was tried, condemned and died on the cross. The love of those women is truly exemplary: not only do they overcome fear, but they also go beyond what is possible. Here they are early in the morning at the tomb with the aromas to make a final gesture of love for their beloved Master. They enter, they do not see the body of Jesus. And immediately two men in white robes appear before them: “Why do you seek among the dead the one who is alive? He is not here, he is risen,” they say. The two men announce Easter to them.
We too, gathered around the altar today, received the announcement of Easter, the announcement of the victory of God's love over death. Yes, the Lord has not resigned himself to evil and the multiple forms with which it makes life in this world of ours bitter. After the pandemic, here are the wars. It truly seems that darkness has fallen on the earth. But the Father who is in heaven - the Gospel of John reminds us of this - loves the world so much, even that of our time, that he sends his own Son, the only begotten, to save us. We can inscribe in this horizon the faith of the Church which sees Jesus descend into hell during Holy Saturday. Yes, Jesus descends into the dark hells of this world of ours, where men and women are crushed by death and violence, by injustice and hunger, by loneliness and abandonment. And this holy liturgy wants to involve us almost visually in this mystery of resurrection: which began in the darkness, he made us experience the gift and strength of the light that we all received from the single lit candle. And the flame, as it divided and our hands welcomed it, did not diminish, on the contrary, it grew until it filled this place with light.
The two men, dressed in dazzling clothes, immediately after the announcement of the resurrection, also exhort us with the words addressed to the women: "Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee". How many times, in fact, had Jesus spoken to his friends about the mystery of Easter, but they had not taken him seriously! And how many times has the same Word of God been addressed to us, and we too have forgotten it? Those women "remembered the words" that Jesus had also said to them, and immediately went to "announce" to the Eleven and all the others what they had seen. There is a responsibility in communicating this Easter to everyone. We are asked once again to communicate it too. Here is the apostle Peter who, upon hearing the women - despite the disbelief of others and partly of himself too - leaves the cenacle and goes to the tomb. As soon as he arrives, he bends down to see the inside and sees the cloths in which the Lord had been wrapped. They are the sheets of love, the sheets of pity, the sheets of compassion, the sheets that wrap the many affected by violence. Those sheets that the Church and every Christian community spreads on the outskirts of the world to care for the bodies of many poor, sick, elderly, children, foreigners, refugees, abandoned people. They are the cloths of the resurrection, the signs of the victory of love over abandonment. Easter asks us to multiply them by widening the space of mercy. It was a small group of women. This is how Easter begins. We too are a small population of poor men and poor women. The grace of Easter sustains us in love. The two men in white robes tell us that the risen Lord precedes us and awaits us on the outskirts, in the Galilee of this world, from there begins the world renewed by love. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.