For me, the thrill of the Resurrection is that it shows the great strength of God and so acts as a tonic of hope. Weakness we know well, too well. So how relaxing it is to gaze on the power of Our Lord, in his Resurrection, and in the splendid rightness and justness of it.With the Church's other great feast, Christmas, we are immediately cast back to "reality" and somberness with St. Stephen's martyrdom and the death of the innocents. But with Easter the Church gives us not a single day but a whole week, and ultimately a season of fifty days. Easter is the gift without shadow, without reserve or limit, without fine print or dependent clause.
Perhaps our personal destination be a long Purgatory or even Hell, but maybe we can ignore that for a moment and consider the consolation of knowing that someone actually made the goal - both Christ and Our Lady - and to know that in a world continuously broken and damaged and filled with failures, be they moral or physical or fiscal or environmental, that Perfection does truly exist and even lived on this earth in human form. To hear a great orchestra play Bach or Beethoven is to experience a glimmer of the possibility of perfection, and while listening to the strains you momentarily forget your own lack of musical skill.
This is the day the Lord has made!
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