Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the

son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to

pray for. Did Jesus really rise from the dead?

The resurrection is Jesus' main miracle.

It's the supreme testimony that he was everything he said he was.

If Jesus really died and came back from the dead, He was.

If Jesus really died and came back from the dead, three days later, just as he predicted he would,

it means, well, it means he is God. It means it's all true. But what are the alternatives? There are people who don't believe in Christ or in his church.

What do they think happened after the crucifixion?

Because obviously something happened.

Christianity is the largest religion on Earth and it's still expanding.

So how do they account for that?

Basically people give about four explanations.

The resurrection story was made up much later,

or the disciples hallucinated that Jesus had come back from the dead, or that the disciples lied and stole Christ's body to support their lie, or Jesus faked his own death and then pretended to have come back from the dead.

But when you look at things carefully, none of these accounts really hold up.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name.

Thy kingdom come,

thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

blessed art thou among women.

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