- Corrie ten Boom who died April 15, 1983
The tomb is empty.
Mary Magdalene, Peter and the beloved disciple don't know what to make of this. But soon they will experience the risen Lord, and the nightmare of Friday will become the joy of Easter Sunday.
It isn't simply that Jesus has gone through death to the other side and now lives a wondrously transformed human life. The joy of Easter is the realization that Jesus has opened the way for us. Death, the greatest fear of human beings, has been overcome. We've got a future, a full-bodied future, that lasts forever. Death has become a birth.
Which is harder to believe? That there is a God? Or that for you there is life after death?
It's the latter, without a doubt.
Believe it.
Join with Mary Magdalene, Peter and the beloved disciple and celebrate the good news of Easter.
Join with the other disciples who "rejoiced when they say the Lord."
Join with the doubting Thomas who said, "My Lord and my God!"
Join with the whole Church as we celebrate this great feast.
- Little Black Book, Diocese of Saginaw