Easter Sunday

Easter vigil homily 4/4/15

Have you ever wondered what a child makes of Holy Week and Easter?

Children challenge us by their questions, they are not easily fobbed doff, hey are curious, inquisitive and think deeply about the ultimate questions of life

 In recent weeks, a teacher in a school in the parish asked Junior Infants what they thought Easter was all about. Some mentioned chocolate Easter eggs and the Easter bunny, but then one lad put his hand up and said ‘the bad soldiers killed Jesus’. They put him in a box’. And they came to the box on Sunday to check upon him and he was gone. What happened? He came back to life!

This description led to some comment among the others in the class. One asked: does that mean that all the other people who are dead, that they came back to life too? ‘Yes’ the teacher answered, and so the boy got excited. Got out of his seat and danced around the room, ‘they’re alive, they’re alive!”