One of the best descriptions about what happened at Easter comes from Fr. Donald Senior. He writes:

"The most radical and most fundamental of Christian beliefs is that Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified under the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead, body and spirit." He goes on further in his talk and says: "If Christ be not raised we are, in Paul’s words, the most pitiable of all people. But Christian faith affirms: The tomb is empty. The bones of Jesus exist but are part of a transformed bodily being whose beauty, mobility, connection to the universe and to the God of the universe is beyond our ken and only imaginable in small part through the eyes of faith. That destiny that we see now only darkly as through a mirror is, because of God’s infinite redeeming love also ours."

Easter is about Christ but it is also about us. The unimaginable become imaginable through the eyes of faith and the profession of the community of faith. All Christians say when they recite the Nicene Creed: We believe in the "resurrection of the dead and life ever-lasting." The resurrection appearances of Jesus to different members of the early Christian community were shared with others and became a foundational belief of the community. That Jesus broke the bonds of death and in doing so gave us the promise of the same destiny. That is why communities repeat and repeat with many alleluias: "He is risen. Alleluia, Alleluia!"