April 25, 1999-Chapter. The Easter Season that we continue to observe during these days prior to Pentecost focuses our attention on the new life of the risen Savior, and his glorification. At the same time, considerable attention is paid to our sharing in the life he now lives in the presence of the Father.
Easter is a celebration of life.
The life it commemorates with joy is not the material life we behold with our bodily eyes and feel with our senses, the life of this world. Rather, we celebrate what St. John calls eternal life which is the only true life. He views this life under the aspect of spiritual insight and vision, going so far as to identify life precisely as light. This life came into the world at the Incarnation of the Word of God. However, it remained largely hidden under the veil of the flesh throughout the time of Christ's condition as man among men, subject to the vicissitudes of time and so to death.