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Easter Day

Acts 10:34-43
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Luke 24:1-12

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

Christ is risen indeed!

And so it is that we are gathered here on this beautiful spring morning, to praise God for the Great Victory won for us on the Cross and in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Alleluia!

This, friends, is the bedrock of our hope. As St. Paul says, “If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died…. for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.”[i]

Because we have been “made alive in Christ,” we no longer live “for this life only.” No more do we set our hope on the things that this world values: wealth, power, success, beauty, material possessions, honors, titles and distinctions. These things, as valuable as they may be, are passing away. We have a far more precious possession: a citizenship in heaven, where Christ now reigns with God in glory. In the words of St Paul: “…if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.”[ii] We who have been baptized into him, have died with him and now share his risen life.

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