An Easter Homily - Easter 2019
We gather at night to celebrate the Light.
There is meaning in this, is there not? To be a Christian means that we belong to a truth that says that light pierces the darkness, even as forces of darkness pierced the body of our Savior and God. Witness the tiny flicker of flame borne aloft on the Paschal Candle, literally, the candle of suffering that bears the nails, this year’s nails, that are stabbed into its beeswax flesh.
The wounds to the body of Jesus, though fatal, are not the ultimate end of our truth.