"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.” Do you still feel as if Easter “just happened”? Do you know what this day means for you?

Something happened on the first Easter morning. No one was there to give an eyewitness report of the event.

Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance.

An ancient homily, “The Harrowing of Hell,” dramatizes what we say in the Apostles' Creed, that Christ “descended into hell.” Here, hell means the realm of the dead (not the place of condemnation) and harrowing implies an overthrow.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

Jesus is for life, not just for Easter.