Hello friends.
On Easter morning, the Church proclaims a simple and astonishing truth:
Christ is risen.
The Gospel of Gospel of John tells us about the first disciples running to the tomb on that first Easter morning.
They saw the stone rolled away.
They saw the empty tomb.
And they believed.
Yet near the end of that Gospel, Jesus speaks words that reach far beyond that moment:
“Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have come to believe.”
Those words speak directly to us.
We did not stand at the empty tomb.
We did not see the risen Christ with our own eyes.
And yet, generation after generation, people have come to faith in this extraordinary promise:
that death does not have the final word.
That God is always bringing new life out of what seems lost.
That the resurrection of Jesus opens the door to a new creation.
For the beloved disciple in John’s Gospel, the empty tomb was not a sign of defeat or abandonment.
It was the moment when everything Jesus had promised suddenly made sense.
A new life was beginning.
A new community was being born.
And that community continues today.
We are part of that story.
We are witnesses to the resurrection—not because we have seen it with our eyes, but because we see its signs all around us:
in acts of compassion,
in communities that gather in hope,
in people who continue to trust that God is at work in the world.
The risen Christ calls us into that same life of faith.
Even when we cannot see everything clearly.
Even when the world feels uncertain.
Easter reminds us that God is always doing something new.
And we are invited to be part of it.
May the joy of the risen Christ fill your hearts with hope, courage, and peace.
A blessed and joyful Easter to you all.