Good Friday and Easter Reflections with David Alton

Lord Alton has published some extracts from the writings of GK Chesterton as well as links to reflections from earlier years on his blog tonight.

Via Dolorosa

"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn." (GK Chesterton; The Everlasting Man)

GK Chesterton and the Resurrection

'God raised Jesus from the dead!' This was the fundamental and unalterable testimony of those who had physically seen Jesus dead and then alive again. The historical fact of Jesus resurrection is the ground and basis of all true love, hope, and joy; for if Jesus is still in the grave then all of humanity will remain in the grave too. But he is not in the grave, and this makes all the difference.

To read more see: http://davidalton.net/2016/03/24/good-friday-and-easter-refelections/