This is the first of a series of articles that explore limbo as a way to understand the Church’s faith on the gift of salvation.

In the present text of the gospel, the angels at the tomb announce the Resurrection with the words of a liturgical formula of the primitive community. The language of liturgy shaped the narratives we now have in the gospels.

Faith and reason are not at odds. The desire for the truth is part of human nature itself. Whatever science uncovers by its legitimate methodology can be a benefit to reason in the search for truth.

From year to year, the Easter story remains the same. But the people who hear it and believe do not. The Easter story is a challenge to believers to live this life against the horizon of a new life that does not simply happen at death but is begun here and now. Easter morning is the birth of Christian optimism.