Easter Sunday
Acts 10:34a, 37-43 · Colossians 3:1-4 · John 20:1-9
Early in the morning on the first day of the week, women walk toward a tomb.
They had seen how Jesus died.
They had watched as the stone was rolled across the entrance.
Death seemed final.
Love seemed defeated.
Yet something strange has already happened.
The stone is moved.
The tomb is empty.
The one who was crucified is alive.
Christ is risen.
The resurrection is the victory of life over death.
From the beginning death was never meant to rule the world.
The Book of Wisdom says it entered through envy— through the power of evil.
And since the first sin, death has followed humanity like a shadow.
Every life ends the same way.
The grave waits for everyone.
But the Gospel tells a different story.
Another Adam has entered the world.
The first Adam brought the wound of sin.
The new Adam brings healing.
Jesus lived without sin.
And because sin had no power over him,
death could not hold him.
The tomb could not keep him.
The cross became the doorway to life.
The Bible uses two words for life.
One is bios—
the fragile life we all know.
A life that grows, struggles, and finally ends.
The other is zoe—
a life that does not end.
The life of God.
The life that continues beyond death.
On Easter morning that life appears in the world.
From the mortal life of Jesus comes something new—
life without end.
Love stronger than death.
The day itself is not accidental.
According to Genesis, the first creation began with light.
“Let there be light.”
And the first day was born.
On another first day light appears again.
But now it rises from the darkness of the tomb.
The resurrection is the first day of a new creation.
Through baptism this new life reaches us.
We leave behind the old life of sin.
We rise with Christ.
Saint Paul says it simply:
“Consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
In baptism God speaks again the first word of creation:
“Let there be light.”
And light begins to shine in the human heart.
Yet the story does not end there.
The risen Christ continues to walk with his disciples.
Sometimes they do not recognize him.
Until one moment changes everything.
Bread is broken.
Eyes are opened.
And they know he is with them.
Even now.
Christ is risen.
And the first day of the new creation has begun.
Alleluia.
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