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"It matters a great deal who is going to win, but not at all who won"

Willie John McBride, Irish Rugby player

An unusual Easter

Have you ever known an Easter like it? For me it was virtual communion with my church – bread and wine in our lounge linked with church friends via Zoom on the computer – celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus as part of our lockdown life.

What can we take from Easter as we move forward into – it seems – several more months of lockdown? Ian Bradley, writing in The Times newspaper at the weekend, expressed it well: “The Easter Sunday message is that death and darkness are decisively vanquished and we need no longer fear them”. Easter is not just an historical fact but a living experience – and one that lasts forever.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce tweeted: ‘“One day we're gonna close our eyes to the sky for the last time. But the last time will be the first time of a whole new life” Happy Resurrection day Jesus!’ Times are hard for a lot of people at the moment but in Jesus we have a hope that will never let us down and never end. The starting point is, as Paul told the Thessalonians, to believe that Jesus died and rose again.

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