To live in the light of the resurrection--
that is what Easter means.

"Jesus Christ the resurrected---that means that God, in love and omnipotence, makes an end of.death and calls a new creation into life. God gives new life. "The old has gone." "See, I am making all things new." The resurrection has already broken into the midst of the old world as the ultimate sign of its end and its future, and at the same time as living reality. Jesus has risen as human; so he has given human beings the gift of resurrection. Thus human beings remain human, but in a new resurrected way...

Christian life means being human in the power of Christ's becoming human, being judged and pardoned in the power of the cross, living a new life in the power of the resurrection...."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)