These are large claims. If the tomb was not empty after the first Easter Sunday, we are dupes. The martyrs would have died for a mistaken cause, a myth that could only have arisen in the first place from lies and deceit, even if millions of innocents later knew no better. Billions of parents would have struggled in vain over 2000 years to pass on the faith to their children. Tens of thousands of missionaries should have stayed home, or travelled abroad for other reasons.
Faith is an immense gift and blessing.
While it is beyond reason, it is not against reason. Christian faith is a person to person movement, passed on by the example and loving deeds of people we admire. The Risen Christ makes other demands on our faith too. We claim that this young Galilean had no human father, was born of a virgin and was in fact the eternal Word, the only Son of God, who with the Father and the Spirit constitutes the three persons of the undivided Trinity, the one true God of love. This is what we celebrate in this Jubilee Year.