Karl Rahner writes: 'What we call his resurrection-and unthinkingly take to be his own private destiny-is only the first surface indication that all reality has already changed in the really decisive depth of things.  The new creation has already started, the new power of a transfigured earth is already being formed from the world's innermost heart, into which Christ has descended by dying… He is here.  He is the heart of this earthly world and the mysterious seal of its eternal validity'

Jesus did not begin to save the world by transfiguring first the visible symptoms. Because  the evil of injustice, war and greed still carves new marks in the face of the earth, we fear that Easter is about the next life.  We wonder whether the world is absolutely saved.  But, as with sick and shallow institutions and churches, the resistant surface is usually the last to collapse.  Easter faith is about believing in the light while it is still dark.  The Triduum is never over.  And a vital contribution still belongs to us.

Much dying to self is demanded so as to complete in our time what Jesus achieved once and for all at that first Passover.  What remains now is that  risen love should burst forth from the grave of our own hearts.  Divine energy must rise from the core of our being.  We are not saved from the world, we are saved for the world; made whole again so as to be reconcilers and peacemakers for humanity and for the earth itself.  It has already happened once for all in history; only we can make sure it is happening today.