EASTER SUNDAY, YEAR A

“Fear not; I know that you all are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, just as he said.”
~Matthew 28:5-6

How is it that new and renewed life can somehow not be good news? And yet, at every step along the way there seems to be resistance to it. Systems of power and control and those who guard them jealously show up prominently in Matthew’s story. So does our own personal “stuff.”

They are no match, it turns out, for the holy earthquakes that break open our tombs and our hearts to what can be. Do you believe this? Are you willing to dare to hope for what could be among us and in our communities as light dawns on our story? Are you willing to at least entertain the possibility that the grace of forgiveness and unconditional love can actually lead us to something new? Can lead you to something new? Are you willing to consider what needs to be reborn in you, what might be made new?

Something grows. A sprout of possibility. We are becoming awake. All it takes is a word.

Enter into worship. 

Readings: Acts 10:34-43 or Jeremiah 31:1-6 † Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 † Colossians 3:1-4 or Acts 10:34-43 † Matthew 28:1-10 or John 20:1-18
 
About the Art: Koenig, Peter. Mary Meets Jesus After the Resurrection, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58538 [retrieved March 24, 2026]. Original source: Peter Winfried (Canisius) Koenig, https://www.pwkoenig.co.uk/.

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