And so with friends of long duration and those we welcome this morning for the first time, we join the long memory of Mary Magdalene and the disciples and all the early church, to become starting this Easter Day the next generation of witnesses who bear this story and live into an ongoing-alive-pulse beating witness.  In moving with Jesus through the shadows of his final hours, we have stood in solidarity with those across the globe haunted by the specter of death, by disease and violence, by warfare and neglect.  During Lent and Holy Week we have broken bread, asked bold questions, dreamed of God's Reign, and grieved over lost friends, sharing in the pilgrimage of all those living with longing for the dawn of the day of new life, the day of Resurrection, when all things, and all people are once again made new.   With all humankind we share this day the blessings of a love so broad, so high, and so deep, that it has conquered the power of death itself and already is drawing into community those who are divided one from another.   Like Mary Magdalene let us dare go out with the strange, wild news, that God is not to be found among the dead, but among the living.  Christ is alive, here, in our midst, to be seen in the faces of each one we meet, and in us, who bring back today the Easter Refrain: "Alleluia.  The Lord is Risen Indeed. Alleluia.  Alleluia."