Ave Maria Meditations
Jesus is not a character from the past. He lives, and He walks before us as one who is alive, He calls us to follow Him, the living One, and in this way to discover for ourselves the path of life. Christ did not remain in the tomb, His Body did not see corruption; He belongs to the world of the living, not to the world of the dead. But somehow the Resurrection is situated so far beyond our horizon, so far outside all our experience that we find ourselves continuing the argument of the disciples: of what exactly does this rising consist? What does it mean for us and the whole of history?
The point is that Christ’s resurrection is something more, something different… His life was a “being taken up” into God. He broke the definitiveness of death, because in Him the definitiveness of life was present. He was one single reality with indestructible life, in such a way that it burst forth anew through death.
+Pope Benedict XVI
