Eternal life for Jesus and for all of humanity was born in the grave. Easter is the gateway into the new paradise. Jesus risen from the dead is the new Adam. We are those brothers and sisters. For us, therefore, Easter speaks of the process, already begun in our Baptism, of our entering into eternal life.
Easter is indeed the story that lives forever.
We are one with the risen Jesus. In the Resurrection Christ's body was remade and it became the icon of the remaking of our humanity. We need continually to remind ourselves that we are the body of Christ. He is ever in our midst. William H. Shannon, a priest of the Diocese of Rochester, is a free-lance writer.