“He is not here; He is risen!”
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, “What makes this night different from any other night?” In a few weeks that important question will fill houses all across the world. As our Jewish friends celebrate Passover, the youngest of each household begins the Seder with this question. As the special meal progresses, the story of the first Passover (Exodus 12) is retold. When God’s people were slaves in Egypt , the angel of the Lord God “passed over” the homes marked with Lamb’s blood. Only the Egyptians and their animals suffered that day. And, finally, at long last the king set God’s people free. To this day, our Jewish brothers and sisters obey God’s command to remember the Passover in a yearly celebration. Theirs is not a passive remembering of some distant event which happened to ancestors far removed. Nor is the story som...