THEOLOGICAL CLUE

The Resurrection of Our Lord, Easter Day, exposes the heart of the gospel and the church year, too. It was the resurrection of Jesus Christ that made the difference in the disciples and the early Christians, changing them into bold witnesses for the crucified and risen Lord; all of the disciples, according to tradition, with the exception of St. John, died as martyrs - witnesses - for Jesus Christ. When Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, told them that "men (would) revile and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account," they probably didn't think much about it, but they did when the persecutions and executions began in earnest. They knew that there was nothing to fear, neither life nor death, because the Christ who was crucified had conque…