First of all I wish you all a blessed Easter feast. May the risen Christ bless us with his ever extending life.
Dear friends,
most of us have some experience in gardening or planting some trees.
We know that not all the seeds which are sown in the same earth will grow.
It is not then the issue of the earth, it can be the defect of the particular seed.
In order to grow, the seed must have a “potentiality of life” in it.
If the seed has this potentiality, it will be powerful enough even to overcome any obstacle above it.
It can come out of the earth or between stones and thorns.
The resurrection of Jesus gives us the same message of such a potential seed.
He had the life which was not passing.
No cross, no grab could hide or prevent this Power.
Yes, he had the power to break the chains of the Death and decay.
He received this power from God, in the union of the spirit.
Sometimes we have some sleepless nights. We cannot sleep if we are undergoing some strain or stress or when some important decisions are to be met.
I think Jesus also cannot be “inactive” or “simply dead”.
He had to rise.
Then he had to hand over His mission to his friends and apostles.
Because his mission was incomplete.
Or his mission ends or gets alive only with this hand-over of the mission.
Resurrection of Jesus is the celebration of Life.
It is the celebration of the continuing life of the divine nature.
It also reminds us the continuing mission of Jesus,
which is entrusted to us through his disciples.
The risen Lord was a very special and different experience for the disciples.
Then the risen Jesus reawakened their faith which was almost fading out.
The good news that their Lord and Master overcame the sufferings and death, gave them at least some hope at their present frustrating lifetime.
The risen Christ and the various experience with him made them stronger and stronger about their faith. They could slowly recognize the teachings of their Master. They can reconstruct and better understand the “hidden meanings” of the Words of Jesus at his life time with them. Slowly they get enlightened. He is living and his message is life.
Thus Resurrection of Jesus becomes the first and very important step in their later mission.
They grow slowly to the courage to proclaim the Risen Lord:
it prepared them to experience the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
The Risen Lord teaches us that His Power is mysterious and inexplicable.
This power was not of Human nature but it was divine.
Resurrection is giving power and hope in our life- not only the disciples of Jesus but also to us.
It assists us especially when we are weak and worn out.
It fills us with new life and Hope.
Let us try to get closer to the mystery of this Easter.
Let it reawaken our faith and hope.
May the Risen Lord bless us all. Amen!
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Fr Thomas Kalathil
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