LET US CELEBRATE CHRIST’S VICTORY

EASTER SUNDAY - Colossians 3:1-4

He died for us, so that we may be reconciled with God, and he rose from the dead so that we may have life. Easter is the feast of the resurrection, and therefore the feast of the victory of life. This victory was not achieved by the boastful power which presses and crushes everybody else or by the clever mind which finds its own way and makes its own rules, ignoring uprightness and justice. It is a victory achieved by the selfless love of the one who offered his own life so that others may live. In spite of God’s silence, as if he was not there or had become deaf to the cries of the innocent, Jesus entrusted his spirit to the Father, knowing that he is the source of life. 

We are called to share in this victory by walking with Jesus through the same way that takes through death to life. As Paul wrote to the Colossians, our life is hidden with Christ in God, so that when Christ is revealed, we too may be revealed:

“Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, 

you must look for the things that are in heaven, 

where Christ is, sitting at God’s right hand. 

Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, 

not on the things that are on the earth, 

because you have died,

 and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. 

But when Christ is revealed 

– and he is your life – 

you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.” 

Colossians 3:1-4