An Easter Reflection - 2026

How many Easters have we lived? Believers and Nonbelievers, Gnostics and agnostics, atheists and those who have never heard of Jesus’ Resurrection will all be on planet earth this Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026. While we who celebrate Easter know of the theological questions that arise for some (perhaps ourselves too on occasion), on a heart level we can experience a deep joy and belief that participate in and walk with a person who changed human history. The blessing that follows comes from that soulful, poetic place in each of us that says Yes to a new language and a new way of seeing that Jesus left for us.

The empty tomb is less a proof to be argued and more a doorway to be entered—a quiet unveiling that what we thought was the end is, in God, always a beginning. In a sense, we know this rhythm already, because we have lived it in our own small dyings and unanticipated renewals. As Maryknoll Affiliates, our call is to recognize this rising life not only in distant lands but in the broken places of our own world. Easter awakens in us a deeper seeing—that every act of compassion, every reaching across divisions becomes a small resurrection.

Easter is a kind of advisory that hope is stronger than fear, that love is stronger than death. How much is this message of Easter needed in this time of fear, deception, greed, abusive power, and insanity?! In this sacred turning, we are asked to trust the unseen, to believe that even in the tombs we carry, something luminous is stirring.

May this Easter season open within us a spaciousness of heart, where fear holds less grip and love finds new voice. May we walk gently upon this earth, attentive to the sacred hidden in the ordinary. And may the blessing of renewal guide our steps, so that wherever we find ourselves, we carry the quiet radiance of resurrection into a world desperately in need of a loving message.