Scripture Reflections for Easter Sunday the Resurrection of the Lord

“The deeper sense of resurrection then is that in all the loss and suffering of our lives, we have the faithful assurance that we are known by name and cared for by the Risen Good Shepherd”

“is our human culture one of death or a culture of life? If the latter, what transformations are required for us to truly cooperate with God’s life-giving activities in our world?”

“Jesus has gone on ahead; humanity’s journey home continues – not a smooth journey, but one energised and dignified by Jesus’ own Passing Over through Death to undying Life. We hold Jesus by the Hope of catching up with him”

“Christ’s resurrection is a rising from the dead of someone who will never die again. It’s about someone who has risen to an entirely new form of life, eternal life. We’re talking here about the overcoming of death entirely.”

“The idea that Christ has risen, that death is transformed by life and that hatred is overpowered by love, is something they struggle to believe...Yet, once they come to realise its truth, they are totally overwhelmed by it and their lives change completely.”

“The Good News of the Resurrection does not push to one side our vulnerabilities as though they are now of no concern...But, now, with the assurance of the ultimate victory of the love of God over anything that life might throw at us, our laughter and our tears take on a new meaning: they become part of the great story of the salvation of the world”

“Today our Church celebrates Easter. The Holy Spirit removes the rock from the tomb but not before writing on it, “He has risen! Come and See!””

“What the resurrection did for the crucified Christ can be done for us too. There is no evil, no betrayal, that is beyond the scope of God’s power to heal, and he offers us all a share in Christ’s new creation, in a new humanity.”

“Our Easter joy lies in the certainty that our present circumstances are not all there is to life. We are, “the other disciples whom Jesus loves.” And, there is a far greater happiness ahead of us too”

“With and in the Resurrected Jesus Christ we are empowered “to see the Lord” incarnate in every person, every creature, and in the earth itself. And we are missioned to reveal the same Resurrected Christ in our words, actions and love.”

“when we celebrate the fact that Jesus, whose death on the cross we commemorated on Friday, has risen again, we cry ‘alleluia’ because we are cheering the fact that he’s won. He has proved stronger than death, that final, common enemy of the whole human race”

“In heaven, everyone sings, everyone is a poet, and everyone has a tune to play, and the theme is always God, but worshipped in as many ways as there are people”

“We do not pretend that death is nothing at all – it is a profound tragedy, but our love is stronger and deeper”

“For the presence of the Risen Christ also means that Jesus’s disciples will have to face certain uncomfortable truths about themselves”

“Evil did everything it could to God when it crucified Jesus. Evil cannot kill God. Evil cannot destroy God.”

“God has shown his covenant fidelity most powerfully by raising Jesus Christ—the Son of David and Messiah, the true Israel embodied in one person—from the dead”

“Whether the conversation words are with God or others doesn’t make a difference. God is speaking to me. I try to listen with the “ear of my heart.””

“His burial seemed to be the end of his story but God changed the story when it was still dark. It was an unsure sign yet a manifestation of the mystery of God who out of darkness chose to shine light upon the world just like in the first moment of creation.”

“The Lord will never allow us to remain in despair and at his own time, he will transform our “Good Friday” tears into an “Easter sunday” joy”

“Just think for a moment what our world would be like if people saw each other as places where the Spirit of God dwells. If we saw others as gifts from God and that God dwells in them”

“The Good News of the resurrection is not something discovered and proclaimed by only one of the disciples, by Peter, by the beloved disciple, by Mary. The experiences of each together give rise to the common faith of the Church.”