The power to say 'it's me': at Easter we rediscover authenticity

In the evangelical stories about Easter events - especially in the Gospel according to John - there is a moment capable of speaking to everyone, believers and non-believers, because it touches a profound fiber of human existence. It is an essential passage, dry, yet dense as a flash that tears through the dark. When they approach him to arrest him, Jesus simply answers: “It's me” (ego sum). He does not hide and does not seek loopholes but, on th…