Telling the Easter story is, from the start, a collective task, one that involves everyone, one that cannot be done alone. Sometimes Jesus tells his disciples to go and share the news, sending Mary from the garden to relate what she has seen. Sometimes the disciples just can’t help it, for in their excitement and rejoicing the message of resurrection bursts from their hearts and in their words. All of those who have seen the risen Jesus want to invite others to join in this Easter story, to share too in the new life it brings. And Jesus himself reminds them that this is their joy and their privilege, for they are ‘witnesses of these things’ (Luke 24), all of them tasked with revealing them to others.

The disciples quickly find this is a task they can never finish, that they must draw others into their mission, learning to trust them and each other. For just as their own perspectives and ideas have been transformed, so too they find others responding, seeing their own lives anew as they recognise the abundance and strength of God’s generous love. And the task continues, as we too are invited to see the world anew in the light of the Easter resurrection. What that light means for each of us will be unique and individual, yet still part of that ongoing, shared adventure that is the Christian story – in which we and all those around us are called to encounter Christ together.