Easter is the greatest of all holidays. It is the greatest because it celebrates the most outstanding event which ever happened in this world. There has been nothing in all history which has been more significant, more meaningful to people than Christ’s victory over death. Today marks the birthday of our eternal hope. Today is the anniversary of the victory of the human soul over death. It was on that first Easter morning, when the angel calmly and briefly announced, "He is not here, he is risen," that human history and life’s meaning changed completely. The words Jesus spoke to his disciples only a few days earlier in the Upper Room were now stamped indelibly across every person’s life: "Because I live, you will live also."

Let us try to capture the feelings and thoughts of those first d…