Archbishop Thabo Makgoba - Easter Vigil – St George’s Cathedral
11 April 2009
Mk 16:1-8
May I speak in the name of the One God – Creator of life, Redeemer of life and Sustainer of life!
Dear people of God, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the tomb is empty, for Jesus has been raised!
By his death, he has destroyed death; and in his rising, he has brought us immortal life.
This is what makes us Easter people.
As we heard from St Paul’s letter to the Romans:
We have been buried with Christ by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. (Rom 6:4,5)
