The Power of the Resurrection - Henri Boulad, S.J.

Fr. Henri Boulad, S.J. gave, today Easter Sunday in Egypt, a powerful homily on the Resurrection of Christ (in French here).  He explained briefly that Christ does not have life like us who will lose it one day but he IS life...We utter words but he is The Word of God. Our lives will end on earth. Persons like Lazarus raised or resuscitated by Christ, the son of the widow of Zarephath resuscitated by Elijah and Tabitha resuscitated by Peter died again. However Christ did not resuscitate. He was the only human person who was dead, traversed death, went to hell and restored humanity to his beloved Father by his death...He rose from the dead never to die again in a glorified body that those who saw him after his Resurrection did not know him at first.

Jesus Christ tells us that he will open for us a door to eternal life...not a book or a rule nor some wisdom like Mohammed, the Buddha, Confucius, and others. God is love, wrote John. His story is the story of love eternal that is the essence of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One in essence for ever. His Resurrection is the epitome of how much God loves humanity; His incarnation, wonderful healing, magnificent new covenant with his passion and death to the depth of hell, and his glorious Resurrection hidden yet powerful that resulted in the courageous apostles and disciples who had been hiding out of fear but now proclaim Jesus the Son of God to whom every knee shall bow. His mind and will are love that gives us faith and hope to enjoy life beyond life in the abundance of the beloved ones.

Christos Anesti....The risen One  is not only Jesus of Nazareth but also with him you and you and you...This is Easter: I am the Resurrection and Life. He has assumed all humanity in crushing death and opening life, eternal life... It is mutation, or change beyond the bio-physics because he who dies will find himself in Christ's hands...

Amen!

   

P.S. I added a few words on my own to explain ...