So, what if Easter is about letting go of some of our concrete expectations and understandings, and learning to see deeper connections and patterns and meanings, the timeless way, a quality without a name in our faith beneath its familiar forms?
Jesus teaches his disciples and us that the Good News isn’t good if it stays in a locked room. Are we ready to go out and share and be the Good News? Are we ready to be apostles?
But if we begin with terror and amazement we’ve known, we can enter the redemption story from right here. Because there never was a more holy age than ours. Our strange pandemic age included.
That is why we are here tonight. The last Word has been spoken, and it is Love.
Jesus starts with the particular and moves to the universal. One of his last thoughts on the cross was about one particular person, his mother. Would this person I love so much be taken care of? Before pouring out his life as a libation for the renewal of all creation, he does the very human thing of making sure Mary is taken care of. That was not just a human thing, but a true act of divinity.