April 08, 2007
Without Easter, all is Lost
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. - - 1 Corinthians 15:14I often hear people suggest that Jesus wasn't "really" raised from the dead. Everything from a ghost to a metaphysical resurrection is inferred. But the reality is that if Jesus wasn't raised, then we won't be raised and our faith is worthless. So this morning, let's give thanks for the bodily Resurrection of Our Lord and, like St. Thomas, hit our kness and say, "My Lord and my God."
The late Pope John Paul II explains:
The resurrection reveals the fact that "in Christ the whole fulness of the deity dwells bodily" (Col 1:19). Thus the resurrection completes the manifestation of teh content of the Incarnation. It can therefore be said that it is also the fullness of revelation. It stands therefore, as we have said, at the center of the Christian faith and of the Church's preaching. - - General audience of March 8, 1989
Easter is not only the fullness of Christian teaching, it is the single moment when salvation is open to us. Christ has conquered death and we too have hope. So now as "sons of God" we can worship the Risen Christ and hope to be reunited with Him in heaven. The power of today is overwhelming.
When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM. - - John 8:28
God bless,
Jay
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