Acts 2:36-41 / John 20:11-18
Human postures are what we do everyday and there may be no special significance to it.
But human postures in a religious context or in a ritual have a significance, e.g. sitting, standing, kneeling, prostrating, etc.
Postures in the bible context also have a significance. For example, Jesus would sit when He was teaching.
In the gospel, we heard that when Mary stooped to look inside the tomb, she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet.
And then they asked her : Woman, why are you weeping?
And in the next instance when Jesus appeared to her, He also asked her the same question : Woman, why are you weeping?
We may wonder why the two angels were sitting at where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet.
In that teaching posture, the two angels were already showing that something had happened, that Jesus is not dead, and that He was not there in the tomb.
Yes, Jesus is risen, He is not dead or lying among the dead. We rejoice because by dying He destroyed our death and by rising He has given us new life.
May our everyday postures, and more so our liturgical postures, express the new life we have in Christ and the joy of the Resurrection.