Easter Vigil sermon on the Web
“In the midst of the dead of night, Jesus was raised from the dead.
“We can remember the first Sunday after Christmas day, where John’s gospel is read; and it says, ‘And what came into being through him was life, and that life was the light of all people, and the light shone in the darkness and the darkness could not overpower it.’
“Zoe, in the Greek New Testament. Light, life, phos, zoe, that Resurrection life, that thing that is not understandable but is given to everyone in baptism. What it would have been like to have been there.
“It would have terrified us, I’m sure.”