
Our Joy in Easter
Our Christian faith is a faith of joy. Joy is the note we hear in all the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection. “They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.” “The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.” One my favorite Easter scenes is from Luke’s Gospel. Jesus appears out of nowhere to his disciples in Jerusalem. And Luke reports that they “disbelieved for joy and wondered.” In other words: The disciples saw Jesus and they w