Catechesis

Risen One

CCC, 642

Everything that happened during those Paschal days involves each of the apostles - and Peter in particular - in the building of the new era begun on Easter morning. As witnesses of the Risen One, they remain the foundation stones of his Church. The faith of the first community of believers is based on the witness of concrete men known to the Christians and for the most part still living among them...

Power of the first encounters the disciples had with the Risen One! They did not witness the moment of His Resurrection, yet, what and who they encounter the days after have truly transformed their lives, making them not afraid and weak, as they were before, but powerful witnesses to His New Life.

These encounters, carried in space and time, make all of us now the recipients of Easter graces, newness of life!

CCC, 647

... But no one was an eyewitness Christ's Resurrection and no evangelist describes it. No one can say how it came about physically. Still less was its innermost essence, his passing over to another life, perceptible to the senses. Although the Resurrection was an historical event that could be verified by the sign of the empty tomb and by the reality of the apostles' encounters with the risen Christ, still it remains at the very heart of the mystery of faith as something that transcends and surpasses history. This is why the risen Christ does not reveal himself to the world, but to his disciples, "to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the People."

Witness to the encounters. They were and are still for us so powerful and transcending, going beyond and above both the time and space. They became and still become so eternal. Since they have a human element into which God enters with the grace of His presence, can they be re-created, re-made by us and in us, in a new way, new paradigm, our own? Would not that be the best way to make a Resurrection and on-going event, overpassing the time and space?

CCC, 651

...The Resurrection above all constitutes the confirmation of all Christ's works and teachings...

Everything what Jesus said he also did.

CCC, 652

Christ's Resurrection is the fulfillment of the promises both of the Old Testament and of Jesus himself during his earthly life...

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