O God, who by the glorious resurrection of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ hast destroyed death, and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that we, being raised together with him, may know the comfort and strength of his presence, and rejoice in hope of thy everlasting glory; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be dominion and praise for ever and ever.

Art:
The Three Marys At The Tomb
By
Gaspare Landi, 1756–1830
Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Palazzo Pitti
Florence#EasterSunday #ReligiousArt #CatholicArt#Jesus❤️#HeIsRisen #HeIsRisenIndeed#Easter #HappyEaster #KalinaB pic.twitter.com/7NbqgLSOCN

— Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) April 4, 2021

“Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.”

–Hans Urs von Balthasar To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010), p.39

Alleluia! He is Risen! This wonderful photo of dawn breaking through the East Window over our Easter Garden was taken by James Atkinson. #EasterSunday pic.twitter.com/WdTT9Q2W1F

— Worcester Cathedral (@WorcCathedral) April 21, 2019

The truth sets us free. Lies bind us, enslave us. And no lie binds more tightly than the lies of death. If death is telling the truth, then we may as well live for ourselves. Then the last year is yet another cruel period of history taking from us those we loved, ending lives cruelly and tragically.

But because Jesus who was dead is alive: death is a liar. The truth of Christ is the reality, we have certain hope and a changed future. We will be reunited with those we love. We are offered forgiveness and freedom to live God’s new life as a gift – to be taken or ignored.

How can we respond? We live in a new world in which everything is changed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That has been true for this country for over 1,500 years. It cannot be ignored or forgotten. Not to respond is to respond.

For each of us. We can receive this new reality. Jesus, crucified and risen, is alive today and brings life and hope. The joy and purpose he gave to the disciples is exactly the same as is offered to us today.

Read it all.

Christ just casually climbing out of the grave, and wishing the terrified guards a #HappyEaster , from this early 16th-century French choir breviary. pic.twitter.com/izy3XfAqFH

— Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) April 4, 2021

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy.

— J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Join us in sharing today's Easter prayer. 🙌🏾 Amen.

For a plain text and audio version of today's prayer, visit https://t.co/Rn4jDVCRSG. pic.twitter.com/vMGObR19VP

— The Church of England (@churchofengland) April 4, 2021

This is the real meaning of Easter…

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb.

The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door. And eternal life which may be ours now, by faith in Christ, is not interrupted when the soul leaves the body, for we live on…and on.

There is no death to those who have entered into fellowship with him who emerged from the tomb. Because the resurrection is true it is the most significant thing in our world today. Bringing the resurrected Christ into our lives, individual and national, is the only hope we have for making a better world.

“Because I live ye shall live also.”

That is the real meaning of Easter.

–Peter Marshall (1902-1949), The First Easter

The Resurrection, Caravaggio. – #art #twitart #arte #fineart #painting – pic.twitter.com/rHolluBt8Z

— 🎨 Bel Art – Orlando Fernández — 🎨🎼 (@ofervi) March 27, 2016

Listen to it all and you can read more about it, including finding the lyrics, at Lent and Beyond.

O Lord, who by triumphing over the power of darkness, didst Prepare our place in the New Jerusalem: Grant us, who have this day given thanks for thy resurrection, to praise thee in that city whereof thou art the light; where with the Father and the Holy Spirit thou livest and reignest, world without end.

Art:
The Angel of the Lord Announcing the Resurrection, 1805
By
Benjamin West
Rococo
Brooklyn Museum,
New York City, NY, US#ReligiousArt #CatholicArt#Jesus❤️#HeIsRisen #HeIsRisenIndeed#Easter #HappyEaster #KalinaB pic.twitter.com/jZk967n1SA

— Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) April 4, 2021

Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast broken for us the bonds of sin and brought us into fellowship with the Father.

Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast overcome death and opened to us the gates of eternal life.

Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because where two or three are gathered together in thy Name there art thou in the midst of them.

Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou ever livest to make intercession for us.

For these and all other benefits of thy mighty resurrection, thanks be unto thee O Christ.

Botticelli's Resurrection of Christ (1490) #EasterDayImages pic.twitter.com/HFZhC7SmrK

— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) March 27, 2016

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

–John 20:19-23

‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!’ Rubens painted the Resurrection of Christ (1611-12) as the centre of a triptych for the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, in a monumental and powerfully emotive Baroque style. #Easter pic.twitter.com/5OaAC895ya

— Art Theoria (@Art_Theoria) April 1, 2018