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Daily reflections for Lenten Easter, written by Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, OMI.

The resurrection of Jesus has many dimensions. At one level, it was a physical event. The dead body of Jesus was raised. The cosmic universe at its deepest level suddenly had a new set of laws. And the very atoms of this universe were rearranged.

Something radically new, physically new, as radical and new as the original creation appeared within history. This aspect should never be understated.

However, the resurrection was also a spiritual event. And that too is important. In the resurrection of Jesus. We are given not just the potential for a resurrected body and a resurrected cosmos.

We are also given the possibility of forgiveness, of being forgiven, and of, forgiving each other. That new possibility and its radical novelty should also never be understated.

From the beginning of time until Jesus resurrection, dead bodies stayed dead. And from Adam and Eve until that same resurrection, wounded and dead hearts stayed wounded and dead. All that has now changed.

There are new possibilities. What is new in the resurrection is not just the unbelievable new possibility of physical resurrection. The resurrection gives us to the equally unbelievable possibility of the newness of life that forgiving and being forgiven brings.

In our day to day lives that is how we’re asked to appropriate the resurrection of Jesus. By forgiving and by letting ourselves be forgiven.