All of our pain, our disappointments, our sins, even our death has been washed away by the cleansing blood of the paschal lamb, the rough wood of his cross now adorned in the white of eternal life, the gold of divinity, the rubies of the precious blood. It is Easter Sunday, the last Easter of the second millennium, the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. Rejoice, Hope, fear no more. Then, things go back to normal, the daily grind. Take a good look at our world - war is brewing in Eastern Europe where barbaric atrocities occur that haven't been seen since the Dark Ages.
Innocent children starve to death in African nations.
Our own nation, the richest and most powerful on the globe is still recovering from a shameful scandal the rocked the highest office in the land, and made it a laughing stock to the leaders of other nations. The coming of the next century fills us with fear -both irrational and rational. Sometimes it would seem so. Easter, like Christmas has become a secular celebration, even a neo-pagan one. Take a look at the world.