In his message for Easter this year, Archbishop Peter A Comensoli asks us to reflect on the experience of the disciples between the time of Jesus’ death and resurrection. ‘It would have been darkness for them; a questioning of everything they had come to know and had hoped for,’ he says.

But God did not want the disciples to drift into oblivion, the Archbishop reminds us. ‘God shook them into a new creation that would change them and everything for all time ...

‘Because, at Easter, life had found a way.’