Sunday Reflection (February 6, 2022)

For almost 2,000 years, Christ’s Church continues a tradition through its proclamation: The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the resurrection, we find a glimpse of what the future holds for human history. It is not gloom and doom, it is resurrection and life: Christ came to bring us life in the midst of our sin and failures, as individuals and as societies. Paul, and we, proclaim the tradition of the earliest Christians (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)

The resurrection tells us that the last word is God’s victory of love over hatred, kindness over malice, and life over death. This is indeed our proclamation! Only the future proves the truth of the resurrection, but in the meantime, we embrace the life and love that flows from God to us because Jesus rose from the dead.