Easter 2022

Easter: see, hear and proclaim without fear

First, see

Vieron la piedra corrida y cuando entraron no hallaron el cuerpo del Señor. Su primera reacción fue el miedo, no levantar la vista del suelo.

Algo así, observa the Papathe Pope, it happens to us: "Too often, we look at life and reality without lifting our eyes off the ground.We only focus on today, we feel disappointment for the future and we close ourselves in our needs, we settle in the prison of apathy, while we continue lamenting and thinking that things will never change. And so we bury the joy of living.

Then, listen to

Bearing in mind that the Lord "is not here". Perhaps we look for him "in our words, in our formulas and in our customs, but we forget to look for it in the darkest corners of life.where there is someone who cries, who struggles, suffers and hopes". We must raise our eyes and open ourselves to hope..

Let's hear it: "Why do you seek the living among the dead? No debemos buscar a Dios, interpreta Francisco, entre las cosas muertas: en nuestra falta de valentía para dejarnos perdonar por Dios, para cambiar y terminar con las obras del mal, para decidirnos por Jesús y por su amor; en el reducir la fe a un amuleto.

“Haciendo de Dios un hermoso recuerdo de tiempos pasados, en lugar de descubrirlo como el Dios vivo que hoy quiere transformarnos a nosotros y al mundo”; en “un Christianity who seeks the Lord among the vestiges of the past and locks him in the tomb of custom".

And finally, to announce

They announce the joy of the ResurrectionThe light of the Resurrection does not want to keep women in the ecstasy of a personal joy, it does not tolerate sedentary attitudes, but generates missionary disciples who "return from the tomb" and bring to all the Gospel of the Risen One.

After having seen and heard, the women ran to announce the joy of the Resurrection to the disciples, even though they knew that they would be taken for fools. But they were not concerned about their reputation or defending their image; they did not measure their feelings or calculate their words. They only had the fire in their hearts to bring the news, the announcement: "The Lord is risen!

Easter Message: Do not be afraid

We too, the successor of Peter points out, we are invited to run along the roads of the world, without fear or opportunism, to share the joy of having encountered the Lord.beyond certain formalities where we have often enclosed it, beyond comfort and well-being.

This is the Pope's Easter messageat the end of a Lent that does not seem to want to end", between the end of the pandemic and the war (he will say the next day in the blessing urbi et orbi):

“Llevémoslo a la vida ordinaria: con gestos de paz en este tiempo marcado por los horrores de la guerra; con obras de reconciliación en las relaciones rotas y de compasión hacia los necesitados; con acciones de justicia en medio de las desigualdades y de verdad en medio de las mentiras. Y, sobre todo, con obras de amor y de fraternidad”.

Jesús nos trae la paz llevando “nuestras llagas”. Nuestras porque se las hemos causado nosotros y porque Él las lleva por nosotros.

“Las llagas en el Cuerpo de Jesús resucitado son el signo de la lucha que Él ha combatido y vencido por nosotros, con las armas del amor, para que nosotros podamos tener paz, estar en paz, vivir en paz” (Bendición urbi et orbi, Domingo de resurrección, 17-IV-2022).

With the victory of Christ and with his peace, Francis will say on Easter Monday, we will be able to "come out of the tombs of our fears" (the fear of death, of fading away, of losing our loved ones, of falling ill, of not being able to go on...) (Regina Caeli, 18-IV-2022).

Also we, like the disciples on Easter morning, have every day sufficient reasons to believe: “Yo —te dice Jesús— he probado la muerte por ti, he cargado sobre mí tu mal. Ahora he resucitado para decírtelo: estoy aquí, contigo, para siempre. ¡No temas! No tengáis miedo” (Ib.).