“The other women with them (Mary Magdala, Joanna, and Mary, the Mother of James) also told the apostles (about their experience at the Tomb), but this story of theirs seemed pure nonsense, and they did not believe them.” Luke 24:11

Yes, the cross is still there upon our foreheads and in our hearts. Easter, more than anything else, assures us of that. Because we believe in both Jesus’ death and resurrection, we declare: “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!” Our Lord’s resurrection is at the heart of the Christian faith. Without the reality of the resurrection, the cross would be nonsense, Jesus would be a well-intentioned martyr, and the Christian church simply would not exist. He died, but he is alive forever! We have been marked by the cross at Easter for time and eternity.

On that first…