New Life from Death!

March 23, 2008 2:00 AM @ BOSCO ITS Lab, Don Bosco Center, Yelagiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, INDIA

Easter-night Reflection
Tags: Resurrection, Easter, Christmas, Religion, Catholicity, Salvation, Faith, Liberation

HRISTMAS AND EASTER North Pole and South Pole Juxtaposed

The Easter significance has traversed The evolution of faith Our faith of comfort has transposed meaning, Of importance, joy, peace and love to Christmas Faith today in want of maturity

Where are the catacombs? Those huddled groups at midnight The ancestors of our faith Facing-off betrayals and persecutions Witnessing and surrendering Resurrection of liberation From slavery From spurious cultism From oppression of elites From gods and goddesses and priests And pirates of human values, dignity Oh Christmas! We understand. The shopping malls and disneyfied celebrations Of course, we celebrate the Life. And that fore stated by all: We love celebrating birth Why not birth from death? We fling ourselves away from suffering, Blood and struggle for integrity, Paradox of our life and faith In dying is our raising In obedience unto death, Liberation and resurrection. Kingdom of God Not built on stones But on sensus fidei On blood and toil of immersed lives. Faith that is born from impossibilities The Resurrection that makes alive the words of men

Into Word of God. Today, God-talk needing living expression As God-work, to find it to be good, as co-creation Not live in the fringes of society As tangent communion Token sacrifices, token commitment and token services Frontier Christ needing frontier men and women For faith that sans frontiers. Resurrection is almost silent. Silence is peaceful. Words of comfort, Words of peace, Words of enlightenment, All in silence of the heart, In gentle questions No more sermons; No more moral dictums; No more outcries against injustice; All silent and serenity Gentle forbearance at feeble praxis. Seeking only truth, justice and true liberation; To live life unburdened; To life of communion - incarnational That gentle feeling of belongingness. Christ who never changes At Christmas and Easter, Birth, Death and Rising; Lord of Life Lives not in memory;

But here and now concretely; To find Him in us, As roots and fruits, Of the ECONOMY OF SALVATION.