Youngest son was home from seminary last weekend due to him helping with large pastors conference this coming week that he is helping with and planning meetings tomorrow, so just the two of us and our older son coming over to cook out (in the cold) today......
I suspect it's a reference to the teaching that the gates of heaven are currently open (the symbolism of Christ rising, I think, 6th grade parochial school was so long ago), or they haven't yet convened an ecumenical council to verify the original translation.
The lord is risen, is the present tense; this shows that message is continual, and presently in force. It's not something only from the past; the message is perpetually meaningful.