December 26, 2010 – Catechism 651-658
"If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain." 1 Cor 15:14. It can’t be put much clearer than this. Christ Resurrection is the event that brings about our hope. If Christ does not rise, our salvation does not come, our healing is not available, and our life is not given. How many go to their Easter Masses without the full sense of what they are celebrating, without the understanding that everything was changed with Christ rising from the dead. Everything that came before was leading to that moment and that moment has been felt in every moment that has come since. Everything written, preached, believed, is vain without His Resurrection.
Such a statement cannot be made about any other moment in history, yet there are those that choose to live a life ignoring this moment. I cannot imagine living life that way. I know what living a life having Christ on the outskirts and occasionally reflecting on Him is like. I know a life of striving to bring Christ into every moment of my life. It is beyond my personal knowledge of living a life without Christ at all. This is living a life ignoring this moment, Christ rising, Christ changing the world, Christ opening the doors to Heaven for us. We should constantly pray for those that live life ignoring this moment, that God will fill them with His grace and the entire splendor that burst forth from that tomb so that may not “be unbelieving, but believe” (John 20:27)