Easter Sunday, 5th April, 2015
"If Christ were not raised from the dead, our faith would be in vain" declares St. Paul (1 Cor 15:14). The Risen Lord gives us three important messages to celebrate today. And we will do well to keep these in our minds this day and all through our life. It is an expression of our faith, a faith that is alive and active, a faith that is vibrant and vivifying.Easter is all about LIFE. Life belongs to God. God has given us life and has a specific plan for us in our life. We live our life, keeping in mind the purpose that the Lord has specified for it. When Jesus lived his life in perfect sync with the One who sent him, God raised him up from the dead! It is thus that the Lord directs our life and its purposes and brings them all to a glorious end.
Easter is all about NEW LIFE. It is said that the greatest of all proofs for the Resurrection of Christ, is the radical transformation that was found in the lives of the apostles. They were so transformed that they were looking like new persons, they had within them, a NEW LIFE.It is this new life that we are offered in this day as Christ rises to new life as the Saviour of Humankind.
Easter is all about LIFE TO THE FULL. I came that you may have life and have it in abundance! Life that Jesus brought us is a life to the full. In his rising he offers that life to each and everyone who claims it for oneself from the hands of the Risen Lord who stands blowing on us and greeting us: Shalom! Peace be with you! Easter challenges us towards this fullness of life, because everyday that we have is a gratuitous gift from God and our only responsiblity is to live it to the full, identifying and doing away with all that can take this life away from us.
Behold Christ the Light; Thanks be to God!