One big reason for celebration during this Easter Season is that Jesus who once was dead is now alive forever and ever. As baptized people whose identity is joined with that of Christ's, we share in His dying and rising.
Case in point: the disciples, who are downtrodden from the experience of Jesus's death, and their own failings in the midst of it, are restored to new purpose in their lives and mission when the Risen Christ appears to them. I couldn't help but make the connection of Peter's jumping into the water with baptism, which signal the start of a new life. And as Christ fed the disciples with breakfast, so He feeds us, especially in the Eucharist.
The Apostles then went forth and proclaimed with boldness the message of faith, which was the beginning of the Church that gives us our mission today, because our spot in Heaven is secured.
It is an amazing work He accomplishes in our lives, so that we can go forth proclaiming Him, before all the world in this life, and in the age to come before His throne, for by His dying and rising, He is so worthy of praise.
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