Resurrection: Life Triumphing Over Death

Happy Easter 2025

A canvas in the hands of a great master is not just an image: it is a message, it is a story, it is a revelation. This painting was created by Piero della Francesca in 1420, and you can still see it in the city of Sansepolcro, in Tuscany. It exudes so much raw power that it may blow your mind. Note the mastery of the composition, the perfection of the details, and the posing of the human figures. Note the movement of the figure of Christ, in contrast with the static poses of the Roman Soldiers. It carries the message of a tremendous movement forward in time, and, at the same time, of the resistance to change of those who are oblivious to it. But the change is there. It is deep, it is gigantic, it is sweeping everything away. It is the essence of the concept of Resurrection: there is no death, everything returns to life. It is not just a Christian concept, but something that pertains to all humankind from the time when the Goddess Inanna returned from the depths of the underworld, in the Sumerian myth of maybe five millennia ago. Those who sleep through the change miss it without even suspecting that it is happening. Just like us, sleepwalkers in a changing world where gigantic forces are awakening right now. We remain asleep, clinging to our obsolete weapons, our dreams of domination, our deep slumber. But the more we ignore change, the more it will sweep us away. Change is the only thing in the universe that never changes.

This year, Easter (Pascha) comes on the same day for Eastern and Western Christianity. We may hope it is an omen of peace for Europe and everywhere.

Хрїсто́съ воскре́се! – Вои́стинꙋ воскре́се!

Christus surréxit! - Surréxit vere, allelúja!

Happy Easter 2025