Easter, on the other hand, brings a changed perspective, emphasized the new Archbishop of Paderborn. This does not mean simply turning your head – “away from the crooked wood that determines the world”. Easter does not mean “shutting out the crooked wood of the cross and falling into an artificial Easter frenzy.” Rather, Easter means getting out of your crooked posture and allowing yourself to be straightened up, explained Archbishop Dr. Udo Markus Bentz.
With Easter the direction of sight changes: up to God, the new Archbishop of Paderborn added: “Despite the misery that weighs us down due to the crooked wood of evil in our world, we celebrate the resurrection and believe: Jesus does not let the power of love in us Death, but calls him to new life. The power of God’s love is the only power that can make something straight out of the crooked wood from which man is carved. We are and remain crooked wood. But looking up to him who was exalted and risen on the cross, we find our way to an upright walk.”
Looking at the broad horizon of the resurrection also changes the view of the here and now, said Archbishop Dr. Udo Markus Bentz concluded his sermon: “If we celebrate Easter because we believe in the resurrection of the dead, then we can also believe in the chance of a resurrection of the living: resurrection of those suffering who are now living, those who are suffering and those who are now living The disenfranchised, the lonely now living, the hopeless now living. Easter is not a hope for ‘sometime after death’, Easter is an upright attitude here and now.”