Easter Sunday – THE MYSTERY OF HOPE

Faith in the Risen one means that we believe our life is just a parenthesis two great empty spaces. Basing ourselves in the Risen Christ, we realize, hope and believe that God is leading us towards the ultimate hope of our lives: justice and peace for the whole of humanity and creation.

Belief in the Resurrection means knowing fully that all immense majority of men, women and children who have only known misery, humiliation and sufferings will no longer be forgotten.

Belief in the Resurrection means that we hope in a life in which there will be no more poverty and suffering and nobody will be sad or crying. Finally, we shall see people from other countries arriving by sea and being welcomed to their new homeland.

Belief in the Resurrection means getting closer with hope for so many people who are sick, chronically ill, physically or psychologically handicapped,

and those suffering depression or tired of always struggling to just survive. One day they will be able to live in peace and total health. They will hear the Father’s words: ”Come into the eternal joy of the Father.”

            Belief in the Risen one does not mean surrendering to a God that is forever distant whom we cannot look into his face or feel his touch and embraces. We shall find Him in the Incarnated and glorious Jesus himself.

Belief in the Risen Christ means that our faith in a better and more humane world will not have been in vain. One day, indeed, the last will be first and the prostitutes will lead us into the Kingdom.

Belief in the Resurrection means that everything here that was left undone or became impossible and everything that was spoiled by our own negligence and sinfulness will, ultimately, be completed by our God. Nothing that we honestly tried will be lost and what we gave up generously will be recovered.

Belief in the Risen one means that we still hope that all our happy moments as well as the bitter experiences, all the hurt caused to others, and everything we have done or enjoyed in our lives will be transformed. We shall no longer experience a broken friendship, an incomplete celebration or a painful separation. God will be everything to everyone.

Belief in the Risen one means believing that one day we shall hear again those words from the Apocalypse: “I am the beginning and the end of everything. If anyone is thirsty, I am the spring of the water of life”. There will be no longer death or tears, no crying or any sort of fatigue.