SUMMARY

1. Enemies of the Christian Faith have always tried to make out that Jesus was not raised from the dead on Easter Day and that therefore the Christian Faith is false.  But despite all the theories about the empty tomb, the fact remains that the body of Jesus was never found.  It was not found because it was not there to be found – it had been changed into a spiritual, heavenly body.

2. After his Resurrection Jesus appeared to many people, to individuals and to groups.

3. The Apostles spent their lives travelling all over the Roman Empire, carrying the news of Our Lord’s Resurrection and planting the Church in every place as they went.  As a result, they experienced all kinds of hardship and pain and many were martyred.

4. It is only because God raised Jesus from the dead that we today have the Church, and Sunday, and the Eucharist, and the Blessed Sacrament. 

References

1. Dix, G. (1945) The shape of the liturgy, Westminster: Dacre Press.

2. ©The Archbishops’ Council (2000) Common Worship.  Holy Communion, Order One.  Available from: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/hc/orderone.html  (Accessed 21 August 2010) (Internet).