Easter Sunday in 2021 Not Without Hope Miklós Verseghi-Nagy 2021.04.04.
As a child, I was fascinated by Christmas but never really liked the feast of Easter. I did not fully understand it either. I was raised in a Catholic family, so I knew that Easter “ranked higher” in terms of significance. Still, Christmas was more heartwarming to me, while Easter related to an epic drama that was difficult to understand and even more difficult to take in.
Jesus’s arrival on Earth was not without conflict, though. Nobody in Bethlehem was willing to accommodate the Holy Family, so they had to find shelter in a stable where Jesus was born. Nevertheless, apart from this “regrettable episode,” it was the promising dawn of a holy life that brought abundant blessings to humanity and shed light onto the world. The later unfolding hostilities and the inevitable drama of crucifixion were then hidden and still far away.