In their Easter preparation work in Sunday School, the teacher asked each student, "What does Easter mean to you?"

One kid replied: "Easter means egg-salad sandwiches for the next two weeks."

Okay, it was a bad answer.

But it was a good question.

What does Easter mean to you? How does it change your life? Does it mean something more than an opportunity for a new spring outfit, a family dinner, and an excuse to bite the heads off all those annoying little purple and pink marshmallow Peeps?

Throughout the ages the church has called the weekend after Easter "Low Sunday" (Dominica in albis). Easter is, after all, the highest point in the Christian year. After such a high in our lives, (the choral rendering of the Messiah, the bonnets and bunnies, the symbolic beginning of Spring and new l…