Resurrection Changed EverythingWritten Br Julian McDonald
God's vindication of Jesus has reverberated through the world from that first Easter Sunday. The Resurrection is an unequivocal statement to a contemporary world that God is against those people who mismanage super funds for their own personal gain, that God is opposed to drive-by shootings and slayings by bikie gangs, that God detests the exploitation of children for pornography and abhors the peddling of drugs that rob people of their dignity and freedom. When the three women brought the news of Jesus' Resurrection, the disciples' lives were changed. They came out of hiding and walked back into life. They became braver and stronger in themselves. Something was set free in them and it found expression as they visited strangers and healed the sick. The life after death that Jesus revealed is not a life that is exclusively for the dead. It is life that is as available to us as it was to the disciples in the days that followed the Resurrection. Resurrection is ongoing and contagious, and changes lives. Resurrection gives us a new way of looking at our world and at one another. It gives us the freedom and the courage to confront contemporary expressions and manifestations of evil.
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On that first Easter morning something truly extraordinary happened to Jesus: God raised him from death to new life. But that wasn't all. Something extraordinary happened to the women who went to the tomb and, eventually, to all the disciples. And it changed their lives and ours, forever. Just how do you and I, with our limited comprehension, make sense of this event which is central to our faith and lives as followers of Jesus?
