HE IS RISEN!

About this episode

Fr. Brian Soliven reflects on the significance of the Resurrection and the hope it brings in contrast to the sorrow of Good Friday.

It is a curious thing how easily we grow accustomed to the dull weight of the world, as though sorrow were the final word, as though death were the great period at the end of every sentence. We live, most of us, as if the story is already written in ink that cannot be altered. The tears of Good Friday, we think, is simply how things are. But then… there is Easter. The Resurrection is not merely a happy ending tacked onto a tragic tale. It is the great reversal, the divine interruption. It is, if you like, the Author Himself stepping onto the stage and insisting that the play shall not end in darkness after all. Death, which seemed so solid, so inevitable, is revealed to be a door—and not a locked one. If Christ is risen, then everything we assumed to be ultimate is, in fact, provisional. Sin is not the final master. Suffering is not meaningless. Even death itself has been, as it were, hollowed out from the inside. The worst thing is never the last thing. This changes not only our destination, but our present. For if death has been defeated, then fear need not govern us like before. We are freed, freed to love recklessly, to forgive extravagantly, to hope stubbornly in places…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Topics covered

• Resurrection
• Easter
• Hope
• Faith

Keywords

• Christianity
• spirituality
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Places: the Central Valley

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