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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, our Easter Gospel contains St. John’s magnificent account of the
Resurrection. Three key lessons follow from the disquieting fact of the
Resurrection. First, this world is not all there is. The Resurrection of
Jesus from the dead shows as definitively as possible that God is up to
something greater than we had imagined. We don’t have to live as though
death were our master and as though nihilism were the only coherent point
of view. We can, in fact, begin to see this world as a place of gestation
toward something higher, more permanent, more splendid.Second, the tyrants
know that their time is up. Remember that the cross was Rome’s way of
asserting its authority. But when Jesus was raised from the dead through
the power of the Holy Spirit, the first Christians knew that Caesar’s days
were, in point of fact, numbered. The faculty lounge interpretation of the
Resurrection as a subjective event or a mere symbol is exactly what the
tyrants of the world want, for it poses no real threat to them.Third, the
path of salvation has been opened to everyone. Jesus went all the way down,
journeying into pain, despair, alienation, even godforsakenness. He went as
far as you can go away from the Father. Why? In order to reach all those
who had wandered from God. In light of the Resurrection, the first
Christians came to know that, even as we run as fast as we can away from
the Father, we are running into the arms of the Son. Let us not domesticate
these still-stunning lessons of the Resurrection. Rather, let us allow them
to unnerve us, change us, and set us on fire.*
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