Funday Times

To-day is Easter Sunday
By Lenard R. Mahaarachchi
To-day is Easter Sunday. The day recalls the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from death. Today is the greatest feast of Christendom. Had not Christ risen from the dead, there would not have been a Christian religion.

It is the Resurrection that gave birth to the world’s Christian community. If Christianity is a coin, the two sides of that coin can be taken to have Christmas on one side, and Easter on the other. There had to be a Christmas, because there had to be an Easter.

Jesus Christ, the second person of the Blessed Trinity at the first Christmas, took the form of a human being to come to planet earth, live with men, and die for the sins of the world as a man.

If that explains Christmas, then Easter can be explained as Christ’s re- vesting of that divinity and glory, for God cannot die. St. Paul says, that had not Christ risen from the dead, our life would cease to have meaning since it ends with death. Man as God’s creation is both body and soul. In death it is the body that dies, the soul does not, but would rise again.

It was in Spring that the first Easter Sunday occurred. As Spring is a time of renewal, so is Easter which renews everything in a Christian. The resurrected Jesus was seen by His mother, Mary Magdalene and His Apostles. His Resurrection changed their lives. They, who in mortal fear of the high priests hid themselves from public after His demise, were seen with vibrant vigour and even challenging the high priests, who refused to believe that Christ rose.

St. Paul says, that God predestined only a few believers to see the Resurrected Jesus. In fact the Burial cloth of Jesus is still preserved in a church in Turin, which is the living proof of His Rising.

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