Holy Week is a passage through darkness, as we commemorate the betrayal, arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus. But Holy Week doesn’t end on the cross. Easter dispels the darkness.
Good Friday followed by Easter means that darkness and death no longer mark an end, but mark a beginning.
It means that the church is never finally dead, for the body can no more die than head. Even if the church dies again and again throughout the ages, its death is never final, but a passage to new life.
It means we have good news to announce, good news of God, a God who is faithful to death, and yet again faithful (Jenson).
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