et verbum caro factum est

   The  Resurrection is the blossoming of the seed  Jesus has always borne within him.  In the Resurrection, that which had lain dormant from the beginning in the vital existence of the Son of Man and God becomes apparent. My existence appears to begin with my birth and ends with death.  Before it lies a darkness so complete that it seems incredible that I ever could have begun to exist at all.  After it, again  a darkness. In Jesus this is not so.  He does not begin with his birth, but  rather "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh,"  and  He knew it in his very bones. "Before Abraham came to be,  I am" he told the Pharisees. (John 8:58)  

For Christ, death- however burdened and agonizing and essential- is only a passageway to fulfillment.  "Did not the Christ have to suffer these things before entering into his glory?" he asks the disciples on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24:26)  The Resurrection is the blossoming of the seed he has always borne within him.
    In the gospel according to John, we are called to realize in our own lives what Christ's whole existence demands:  faith.  Then we understand that he did not come to bring us new but world-born truths and experiences, but to free us from the spell which the world has cast over us.  This means that we measure him by the standards he himself has taught us; that he was not born to further this existence "My kingdom is not of this world," he tells Pilot.  But rather  a new existence is being born in him. "For this one purpose I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth listens to me."  We are called to have faith, to no longer judge Christ with worldly eyes, but to see the world and everything in and around it with his eyes. "What is truth?"  The Resurrection is the foundation of the true world.  These glorious scars, these holes in his hands, feet and side, these holes are breaks in the integrity of the finiteness of existence.  Here in these wounds, in this aperture  into the heart of the world, the finiteness of the world ends.  Here the uncreated Infinite Love of God is affirmed.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh.
           - adapted from Romano Guardini's The Lord p.408,  and Jean Borella's The Secret of the Christian Way p179