Jesus is Risen! Alleluia!!
Fr Pat Kelly SMA (from Belfast) shares his reflection on the meaning of Easter.
Most people would accept that he wasn’t a habitual liar or a demented lunatic. No doubt some people during Jesus’ life on earth may have thought these things (Jn.10:20), but many more people were so convinced that he was who he said he was that they followed him even though there was a heavy price to pay. These were not foolish or superstitious people. They were not stupid. They saw him heal the sick and raise the dead. Because of him they experienced a new joy and peace in their lives that they did not have before. Many left everything to follow him even though it meant being persecuted, ridiculed, imprisoned and even killed. They would not have done this to follow a madman or a liar. There was something uniquely special and different about Jesus that made them convinced that he truly is who he claimed to be – the Son of God.
What was that something? It was the Resurrection! They believed he rose from the dead because they actually met him! It was this encounter that gave them the strength, the courage, the conviction, the determination to spread his message throughout the world, even if it meant their own death. Their encounter with the risen Jesus was real.
I pray your encounter with the risen Jesus be likewise real.
Have a blessed Easter!
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