Easter Reflection for 2024
The First Book of Genesis, More Than a Creation Myth
Note: Inspired by Easter Vigil Mass , March 30th 2024
This year, the Paschal Triduum, the period of three consecutive days that includes Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, was particularly important for me. A heightened longing to be closer than ever to God, an inner struggle to balance our sinfulness and the will to be a better Christian, sum up the core of this year’s experience. And with Lent now concluded, on this beautiful Easter Sunday morning, when I look out of my kitchen window to see the peaceful spectacle of God’s creation, the splendid, aquamarine blue dome, that slowly brightened up as the Sun embarked on its slow procession across the sky, my mind and heart, embarked on its own journey of reflection. The catalyst for this article, yesterday’s readings from Genesis I. [1]
I have always felt a sense of awe when reading the opening passages from Genesis. As a teenager, and now as a grown man, repeating the words “dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux” (“Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light.”) immediately projected both a sense of God’s infinite power, as well as a truthful telos which justifies why we are here on this earth. [2]
