Prayer of heart. Resurrection Sunday, let' s go out prophet. It
is only right that we proclaim your name Holy Father and bless you from the
heart. It is our duty to do so on this feast of resurrection and
life. Although we still live in a diminution of faith, we thank you
for seeing a broad horizon of hope. Today we celebrate the Passover, the
passage of our history, of Jesus and sing joyfully of Hallelujah. We believe
that he continues to see living in You, just as you, father and
source of life, always lived in Him. Jesus has discovered to us that
this feast can also be our own deliberation Passover. If we go from selfishness
and decide to live fully for the children for the brothers and sisters he is
already a father, Father God. For all this, we bless you and
sing in honor of this hymn of joy. So I wanted to begin with
this prayer of the liturgy of the Church, the evagelium of St John,
Chapter twenty month crus one nine. On the first day of the week Mary
of the Bread of Alena was the tomb. It ends at dawn when it
was still dark and saw the lota. The slab removed from the sepulchre ran
and went where Simon, Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved and
told, took away the sepulchre of the sepulchre, and we do not know
where they have laid it. Peter and the other disciple went out the way
of sepulchre. The two ran together, but the other disciple ran further than
Peter, and came first to the tomb, and astonished, he saw the
bandages on the ground, but did not enter. Simon also came after him
and entered the tomb and saw the sales on the ground and the shroud with
which they had covered his face, not on the ground, but with his
bandages kneeling in a separate place. Then the other disciple came in, who
had first come to the tomb, and I saw, for until then I
had not understood the scriptures which he was to rise from among the dead is
last at last the corrosions of the Angels; it is the hierarchies of heaven
and the victory of the king so powerful that they proclaim salvation to the drowsy.
With these words begins the wonderful Easter proclamation that the diacolo sings excitedly on
the solemn night of the vivid resolution of Christ and all the children of the
church, scattered throughout the world, exploit the unstoppable joy to celebrate the triumph
of their redeemer. Finally, victory has come so denied. In one of
the last scenes of the film of Belgibson' s passion, after the death
of Jesus in the cravary, the abyss appears down there, the figure that
in all the end is to be sufficated to the devil with extentory shouts,
the eyes dislocated with rage and with the whole body crisped by the eye and
despair, has been definedly defeated by the death of Christ. In this sense,
it is true that he proclaimed neither Nitche chish that God has not died.
God has freely and truly given up his life involuntarily to redeem us and
with his death has opened the ports of a new and eternal life to us.
The way in which Franco Sephirelli presents the scene of the resurrection in his
film Jesus of Nazareth is very suggestive. His apostles, Peter and Paul But
and John Forgiveness come running, grave very early in the morning and do not
find the body of the Lord. Then all the members of the Salhedrin also
arrive to make sure of the facts and there will be only the canvases and
the shroud and that empty flea and finally comment one of them. This is
the sign, yes, the true beginning of Christianity and of the Church.
Hence, the spread of faith to the whole world will be uprooted because life
has returned to life. That this risen is the key to all our certainties.
As Pablo would say later. If Christ did not rise, they go
to those vain faith is our preaching. You are still in your sins.
But Christ has not risen within the dead, as the firstfruits of those who
sleep in him. Our whole life takes on a new meaning, a new
direction, a new dimension. It alternates with him, yet it is not
always easy to believe in the risen Christ, even if it seems a paradox
to us. One of the things that draws my attention the most from the
Gospel passages of the Passover is precisely the great resistance of all the disciples to
want in the resurrection of their Lord No one gives credit to what their eyes
do. He sees his eyes. Neither the women, nor Mary Magdalene,
nor the apostles, although they appear to them in various options after the rising
of the dead, nor tomas and luricupus of babus, and our lord will
have to face them their unbelief and hardness of heart. The only one who
seems to open it is John, the apostle. Just as the Gospel of
today is narrated. Peter and John have rushed to the tomb very early in
the morning, when the women have come to announce to them that they have
not found the body of the Lord, they think that some Dros. He
thinks some of them have been stolen and horrified by the idea Rolisipo comes to
the monument and find nothing. Everything as women have said, but John,
the favorite has already begun to act the mystery. Peas sales on the floor
and the vulcro rolled up and apart and comments, saw and believed p confess,
for until then had not understood the writing that he was to give result
among the dead. What did you see that morning? Surely, the Shroud,
in perfect condition, did not break or tear anywhere intact, as they
had left it at the time of burial, only now it was empty as
deflated, as if the body not of Jesus, had not disappeared and without
leaving a trace it understood then what happened has been resurrected. But John saw
only a few signs and with his faith he went far beyond what his senses
saw. With the eyes of the body. He saw some bandages, but
with eyes of the soul. He discovered the resurrected, with his eyes or
body. He saw a corruptible matter, but the eyes of spirit I see
God, conqueror of death. What all the Gospel accounts of the Passover teach
us is that to discover and recognize the Risen Christ, it is no longer
enough to send him with the eyes of the use we look at before.
It is necessary to enter into a different perspective, in a new dimension,
that of faith. All the days from the resurrection to the ascension of the
Lord to Heaven will be another very important period for the life of the apostles.
Jesus will now teach us, namely, to recognize him by means of
the men, by the signs. It will no longer be natural evidence as
before, but its spiritual presence will guide us and so from now on will
be its action in the life of the Church. The sun happened to the
disciples and in that we can think of ourselves as well. Just like them.
Christ appears to us constantly in quotation marks our life in every day,
but we hardly know him, because we lack the vision of faith and we
must learn to discover him and experience him from the bottom of our soul by
faith and love, and the experience of faith must gradually lead us to an
inner transformation of our being in the light of the risen Christ. The redemptive
message of Easter is nothing other than the total purification of man, the liberation
of selfishness, you must aga redeemer of the Passover. It is nothing other
than that total purification of man in the liberation I repeat of his selfishness,
of his sensuality, of his complexes, purification that, although it implies a
phase of cleansing and inner healing for fear of the sacraments, nevertheless, is
realized in a positive way with gifts in pliritu, as is the illumination of
the spirit, the vitalization of the being by a new life that of bulga
ozo and peace sum of all virginic goods. In a word, the presence
of the Risen Lord, in fact, St Paul, expressed them with unstoppable
emotion in that text which, or which you believe, grasps the scepticism of
this Easter Sunday. If you have risen with Christ, seek the things above
where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, aspire to the goods
above, not to those of the earth, for you have died and your
life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ appears our life, then
you too, you will appear together with faith in glory. Jesus, what
a joy it will be to close the Easter of resolrection with joy or celebration
that you have overcome the fear of suffering death and everything to teach me a
lifestyle that can fill me with the aplethud of love. Thank you, Thank
you, Thank you, It overflows my heart from this authentic to your emotion,
which gives an incomparable peace. I trust that it will put us out
because of the problems and so many other things that can happen today. I
know it depends on my attitude, because your grace makes it possible. I
give you the blessing God, Father who through the resurrection of the only begotten,
has redeemed you and given you the grace of filial adoption. May Christ
fill you with the joy of his blessing that through his receptions, he obtained
the beach freedom, grant you to share in the eternal inheritance and you,
raised within him, by baptism, by faith, through a holy life,
can come to the heavenly homeland and the blessing of God, almighty father,
son and holy spirit, descend upon you and accompany you always amen