EASTER OF JOY AND PATIENT HOPE leading us to the empty tomb with the stone removed, and encourages us to share in our GALILEA that JESUS CHRIST LIVES (03-04-2021)
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
One more year we celebrate the center of our faith and the foundation of our hope: THE RESURECTION OF JESUS CHRIST. The moment is pressing and the darkness of time is painful: pandemic, vaccine, political cynicism and corruption, Communism sneaks into our society in an attack plan against the great values of the dignity and freedom of every person. The current moment is like the umbrella of fear that paralyzes us to get out of it and live our freedoms and our dormant rights. Our father, the political world, It anesthetizes and numbs us in order to change our ways of being, think and feel for life.
That is why it is urgent to celebrate EASTER as a joyful time to rekindle the dignity of faith. (Lc 1,45; Mt 15,28). Consolidate the firmness of hope (Jn 14, 1-4) when it is believed that all is lost, forgetting that He walks with us in the face of doubts and uncertainties as He did with the disciples of Emmaus (Lc 24,13-25). Easter is a call to the urgency of love (Jn 13,34-35) in a globalized world where each one walks alone with an indifferent gaze before the lost brother on the side of the road (Lc 10,25-37). It is time to reaffirm in constant novelty the truth of God and the truth of man. God's truth is Jesus Christ (Jn 3, 16-19), and the truth of man is Jesus Christ (Hb 4,15), it is time to experience the fullness of God's love in Jesus Christ and the dignity of man through Jesus Christ. Every Easter is an impulse and urgency to look to the future with hope and the reason for it (1 On 3,15), whose hope generates a new way of being in life and facing the urgent challenge of our time with optimism, aplomb, boldness and courage inside the house of Mercy. This hope has a name: JESUS CHRIST and is based on a fact that revolutionizes and transforms the history of time: HIS RESURRECTION (1Tim 1,1). Each Easter should be a "Today" that rekindles and encourages the follow-up, illusion, brotherhood and perseverance, to thereby break fears, tensions and disappointments that can paralyze our march looking at the encounter of the Risen One.
Grounded and rooted in Jesus Christ (Col 2,6) give reason for our hope (1On: 3,15), in the midst of this society daze, bewildered and weakened in the great values, so necessary that it is of hope in the face of fear, bewildered and anesthetized by political reality, social, human and sometimes religious. Our Christian label WILL SHINE for the way we face life from a strong and patient hope in Christ. This Christian hope is built day by day "rooting" life in the Risen One. That is his real secret.
May the Virgin Mary, Mother (Jn 19, 26-27), Women of the Incarnation (Lc 2,5), Woman of the Eucharist (Mt 26, 26-27), Woman Cruz (Jn 19,25), Women of Hope and the Church (Acts 1, 13-14), share our passover 2021, and one day Passover undated, and teach us to simply reread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, your son, and to translate it into life with all its revolutionary and committed consequences, manifested in the radical spirit of the Beatitudes. Ella, paschal gift to the world and to the church, encourages us to renew our interiority day by day (2 Color 4,16). Ella, Queen and Mother of Mercy urge your children to walk as men and women free of all fear and political and social anesthesia and the Samaritan heart in the face of so many stories on the path of life and the covid. In the darkness of this moment, let us grasp the Holy Rosary as the only and effective antidote for the virus in its different facets, and let's say, let us feel and live the always blessed and hopeful words: "And after this exile show us Jesus the blessed fruit of your womb".
A hug and prayer P. Rolando