He is risen!
He is risen indeed! We have had several weeks in the season of Lent to know and become
familiar with the life, passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. And as believers we should respond with the excitement of believers to the claim that he is risen. With affirmation we acclaim, “He is risen indeed!” For if he has not, our faith is in vain. This is why we celebrate the liturgy according to his will, for there is no other way. According to our own will, we fall short of our acclamation that he is risen indeed. We have all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all (Is. 53:6). That is why there is such a division among Christians today. According to his will, our acclamation is fulfilled because we have come to believe in him. And according to him we follow in his way to effectively be able to pass on to the next generation that the claim ‘he is risen’ is true. If we do this in any other way it is not of him who has revealed
himself to us. He is risen indeed! – BAR