Voices of the Spirit of between Frisina
"You seek Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. He is risen, is not here" (Mk 16.6 ). These are the words that God's messenger, robed in light directed at women who came to the tomb to embalm, as was the custom, the body of Jesus story of Jesus and then continues. He was not closed in the grave, not a character from the past but the living, walking ahead of us and calls us to follow him to raise us with Him down from the Mount of Transfiguration, if you remember, the disciples asked Jesus what he meant when he mentioned "rising from the dead" (Mark 9, 10). And that is the question we ask ourselves: "What does raise? What does raise for us today, for history, for the world? ". The resurrection of Christ is a totally new dimension that the course of history and life in all its developments has never had before Jesus But what happened there to the grave? There is only one certainty in the midst of many questions: Jesus is not there anymore. And how did this happen? Reflecting, in fact, it is inconceivable that the author of life would remain a prisoner of what is not life. Here then we can get that, just a little, calling it the great mystery of the resurrection as a "huge explosion of light," an explosion of love that can destroy even the hardest stone and resilient. The resurrection of Jesus has opened a new dimension of being and life in this dimension and there is no place for the material from which emerges a new world. This event does not remain rooted in the past, it is not any miracle is intended to occupy the rooms of our indifference. It is a real breakthrough towards a new life, towards a new world which, starting from Christ, constantly affects our reality, transforms it and drew him. How? The answer is very simple and yet surprising, this event comes to me through faith and Baptism. And in Baptism, Christ comes to me to grab me and draw me to himself. So baptism goes far beyond a mere "ecclesial socialization" of a lavender, a purification, it is really my death and my resurrection, my rebirth, transformation of my being in a new life. St. Paul in Galatians summarizes: "It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2, 20). The resurrection, therefore, is not passed, the Resurrection has reached us and seized us. It is a living person, true, Jesus of Nazareth that keeps us firmly to him even if our hands are weakened by the violence, power, corruption, and finally sin. "I live, ye shall live," says Jesus to his disciples in the Gospel of John (14, 19), and today that together with our Easter celebriamola He repeats it to all of us. Live in him, however, involves commitments: to implement the wonderful experience of communion between us and welcome with kindness, especially today, the gift of suffering, any kind of suffering. There is no Easter without Good Friday, so says an old proverb. And it is true, the cross is a source of winning a trophy that anticipates our joy to live with the pain and live-in-suffering to us makes you want to delete like Jesus at all costs the suffering of our life is not yearning for the resurrection. And who among us would not rise again, who among us would not want to defeat the precariousness of our condition? Let's get in the shoes of the apostles, in the role of Mary and who had not ceased to hope. Immediately we realize that our current situation is not final but merely provisional. Our company should recover its attitude of members of the first Christian communities. They all lived to be resurrected just like Jesus When they met, they met, they saw, their greeting was "Christ is risen" because they had made this event a great certainty: He is indeed the Savior of the world, all the rest before Jesus is relative. Today more than ever, we must jealously guard our faith and with it, but keep the inner joy that the sin bearer of gloom and darkness, would tear all the time. St. Paul, in today's second reading urges us: "Look at the things above and not those of the earth." So do not stop today, Easter Sunday, what we started and lived for the whole of Lent, during which time a little 'we have tried to abandon the things of the earth and turn our hearts toward heaven, the home to which we are all going. The Lenten journey today, a day of Easter comes to an end not because we always look to it and refer to participate worthily in the mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus continue to sow and in the meantime, we also collect the fruits that come so far from what we have sown. Only then can we continue to be the image of the Risen Christ, the only way to bring joy and peace, just as Jesus did, to those who still do not have it.
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