Happy Easter!! Catholic Teen Life has also been resurrected on this marvelous Easter Sunday, but that's not the big deal, Jesus is!
Our Jesus, our lover, and Lord, our all-powerful God, rose from the dead, and in doing so, saved us from our sins. There is nothing that could possibly be more amazing than that! One thing that I realized for the first time this Lent was how many people went to Heaven on Easter Sunday. Just think about it, when Jesus died, he opened the gates of the Sheol (the place of the dead, not hell, as is commonly mistaken), and all the people who'd ever lived who were not in a state of mortal sin went to Heaven. That's crazy. Millions of people went to Heaven on that first Easter Sunday. Millions of people saw God as He is, in the Beatific Vision, for the first time. God's promise was fulfilled. The son of David saved His people from their sins. In resurrecting He redeemed us, He redeemed death. Death is not the end. This world is not the end.
"In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.”
-John 16:33
This is our God. This is the only being who loves us completely and totally, without reserve. He died for our sake, and then rose from the dead and won dominion over life and death. He has conquered the world, and even death itself. Love has won. We must rejoice!
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