As we begin proclaiming the greatest news of all, our Christianity may have come along with doubts and fears. What’s in it for me that the Lord has risen from the dead? How does our Christianity become solidified by the faith in the Risen Lord? What is the message of the Resurrection to our modern-day Christian life?

Christ’s resurrection wasn’t God’s selfish attempt to make Himself known. It was a selfless call and foresight borne to us with a promise that, soon, we will also rise from the dead and live with our Creator, Savior, and Sanctifier, who is God eternal. Our Lord’s rising from the dead is an affirmation that Death is a conquerable human nature through trusting oneself to the will of God. His resurrection is what brings us hope of the eternal life promised to us in our daily covenant with our Divine Creator. His conquest of death solidifies the faith planted in our hearts from the moment our God created us in His image and likeness. His promise “of life of the world to come” (Nicene Creed) is His undying act of love that brought everyone back to the Father. All these are fulfilled according to the will of the One who created us, saved us, and sanctified us in spirit and truth.

Christianity is nothing without this momentous event. It is the very reason why we hold high regards to the Easter octave where we remember how we are as Christians, as children of the One True God -- Father, Son, and Spirit -- and the core tenents of our doctrines and magisterium. The Holy Church, in all aspects, is essenced from Easter morning. Totally and undoubtingly believing in the resurrection of our Lord and Savior strengthens everything we have held dear in our Christian faith.

The Resurrection of our Lord on the easter morning of the Third Day after His triumph on the Cross signifies a promise to all who heed the call of sacrifice out of Love. It is an invitation to faith, open access to the fount of Mercy where the Lord calls upon all of us - including those too much indulged into the modernity of the world, and a beacon of hope that the promise of Eternal Salvation through Divine Charity and utmost submission to God’s Holy Will is not negotiable nor discriminatory. Modern-day Catholicism and Christianity have hurled all of us towards an inevitable doubt towards what happened on Easter Sunday, but it is also solidifying the shroud of mystery that continuously nourish us to believing all the more our Christian values, our Catholic catechisms, and our deep devotions to the Lord through our union with all who believed in the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Happy Easter, my dear brothers and sisters, and may the Risen Lord bless us all, keep us safe from the wraths of sin and death, and bring us to everlasting life.