The Extraordinary power of Easter!

✨ Why the Resurrection Is Absolutely Central to the Christian Story

🌅 1. It’s the moment God’s story breaks into ours

The Resurrection isn’t just about Jesus coming back to life. It’s the moment the long arc of God’s covenant — creation, Israel, exile, promise — suddenly erupts into new creation.
Without it, Jesus is a wise teacher who died tragically.
With it, He is the One through whom God remakes the world.

The Resurrection is the turning point where God’s faithfulness becomes visible, embodied, irreversible.

🔥 2. It validates everything Jesus said about Himself

Jesus didn’t present Himself as merely a moral guide. He claimed to forgive sins, to be the Son sent by the Father, to inaugurate God’s Kingdom.
If He stays in the tomb, those claims evaporate.

The Resurrection is God’s “Yes” to Jesus’ entire mission.

It’s the divine confirmation that:

His teachings are trustworthy
His sacrifice is effective
His identity is true

Paul puts it bluntly: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.”

🌿 3. It reframes suffering, death, and human destiny

Every human story ends in death — except this one.

The Resurrection doesn’t deny death’s reality; it eliminates its finality.
It says:

suffering is not meaningless
death is not the end
hope is not naïve
life is greater than death

🌍 4. It launches the Church’s mission

The disciples didn’t scatter across the world because they admired Jesus’ teachings. They did it because they encountered Him alive.

The Resurrection turns:

frightened disciples into apostles
a small Jewish sect into a global movement
a message into a mission

The greatest proof of the Resurrection was that every scared disciple then became prepared to live and die for Jesus.

🌱 5. It inaugurates new creation — starting now

The Resurrection is not just a past miracle or a future promise. It’s the beginning of God’s renewal of all things.

It means:

forgiveness is possible
reconciliation is real
holiness is attainable
the Spirit is given
the world is being remade

Christians don’t just believe in life after death.
Our eternal life starts before death — transformed by the power of the risen Christ.

💜 6. It personalises the story: our resurrection is tied to His

The Resurrection is not simply Jesus’ victory. It’s the pattern of our own lives.

It says:

your wounds can be healed
your failures can be redeemed
your story can be rewritten
your death is not your end

The Christian life is not self-improvement. It’s participation in Christ’s dying and rising to eternal life.

🌟 In short

The Resurrection is the centre because it is:

the vindication of Jesus
the defeat of death
the birth of the Church
the dawn of new creation
the promise of our future
the transformation of our present

AMPJP Update – March is in-person meeting month for AMPJP

AMPJP has held its annual Strategy Meeting to meet the issues of the future.

We looked honestly at issues such as potential middle-class drift in our ministries. In this we considered how to use our strong ministry base to launch initiatives like EREA BlendED for students who can’t, for social or men-

tal health issues, attend a regular school.

We began a five-year external review of our AMPJP operations. We looked at our role in advocacy within and outside of the Church, the possibility of an international conference on MPJPs and lay leadership and our work with Australian Catholic Safeguarding Ltd. Trustees also had the opportunity to discover their our own spiritual gifts.

Our CORMSAA work has just extended to South Australia

A new Chapter of CORMSAA (Committee of RI and MPJP School Authorities Australia) has been set up in South

Australia to bring together Religious Institute and Ministerial PJP school authorities there. At its first meeting we heard from John Neate, Chair of the South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools (SACCS), our RI MPJP Member Representative Kathy McEvoy (pictured) and our RI MPJP nominated Institutional Commissioner Michael Dahl.

We also held a national webinar looking at future funding of Catholic Schools, led by Dallas McInerney and our CORMSAA Chair Audrey Brown. We had a record number of 129 registrations and the input was very well received.!

Our Formation Committee looked at cutting edge issues

With discussion led by acting Chair Gary Humphrys (pictured), these included whether there should be a mission expert on MPJP boards, the focus of our Wisdom Circle meetings, and the impact of Faith, Mass attendance and the Eucharist on MPJP leadership. We continued on our study of the Called by Love resource and how this theology of Lay Leadership might be shared pastorally. We looked at how we might evangelise appropriately in healthcare, the practical implementation of the Inclusive Governance Project and how we might support new formation initiatives such as the Catholic Leadership Foundation.