52._ Resurrection

They received this message, had that conviction. They told that they had had visions, each one separately and altogether. Hallucinations? Autosuggestion caused by the consolation necessity? Collective delirium?

Of course, they had to be extremely vivid hallucinations to create that recovery, that extraordinary confidence. If madness had been to follow that Master before, what would be now, in the presence of his corpse? And they were not comforted by some days, but by the rest of their lives, until giving them to the martyrdom by their faith. This immense conviction, not of a single man but of a whole group, could not be reached being based on doubtful own nor other people's visions. What happened then?

We believe in which they themselves affirmed: that their conviction was work of the spirit of God, operating in their minds, as before acted in the minds of the prophets of Israel. The creative capacity of the apostles, that would transform to the world, was not but the creative capacity of God, inspired of a direct and special way in them, to continue making the work of the Redemption.

And the message of the Spirit was this one: "Jesus, the one that was crucified, has been resurrected; he is truely the Messiah, the Christ; he precedes you in the universal resurrection of all the men to the eternal life with God; believe in Him, convert you to enter his Kingdom ".