Nazarene Walks with Us

Easter Reflection: SHALOM April 16, 2006 1:30 AM @ BOSCO ITS Lab, Don Bosco Center, Yelagiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, INDIA

Tags: Resurrection, Easter, Christmas, Religion, Catholicity, Salvation, Faith, Liberation

Is then death an absurdity? No. This is the spring of New Hope. New Life. By the virtue of this New Life, death has become a threshold. In defeat over death the victory of resurrection was established. In resurrection we received faith to believe and hope to realize. When the disciples felt ahead a dead-end, when they begun to think that there is nothing out there beyond Calvary, there glowed the good news of Shalom. We are like disciples living behind closed doors and windows. Let our faith glow through suffering. Let us not deny the place of cross in our life. Cross is the root of our faith in resurrection. Through cross, Gods grace is revealed. Cross without Christ has no meaning. Christ through cross teaches the uncompromising, radical principle of Kingdom. Love for all. And cross is the final question that our Father

makes to the world not of judgement, not of retribution, but of abiding peace. Alleluia! God be praised! Jesus of Nazareth is resurrected and is now Christ for our life. To our troubled perception He comes as light. In our lonely walk, He joins hands with us (Emmaus). In our absurd toil at sea, He comes as captain who command us to cast net where He knew the catch would be (Galilee lake). At the end of our hungry days, He prepares the meal and waits at the shore (Galilee lake). To the wavered hearts He challenges to love His flock (Peter). To the doubtful mind He becomes more than a scientific empiricist (Thomas). To the fervent people He offers the practicality in life (Magdalene Mary). He just calls and people recognize His self (Magdalene Mary, John, Peter). He was there with disciples for forty days the Gospel time. Resurrection offers gospel of silence and of peace. Disciple often finds no words to share the presence of peace. No more word wrangling. No more parables, no more exhortation. But the gentle abiding Presence of Peace. Christmas atmosphere is relocated in the simple word of Shalom. Jesus presents himself as He was and is and will be. He, the great interface of convergence. Transcendence and Immanence fuses in Transparentialities the Sacramented truths. No transcendental glory of Tabor. His transfigured body enters where no one could penetrate our closed doors and windows. Our barricades of human limitations break open at his forbearance.

He dines with disciples, he points out that he is of our flesh and blood. The healer who has been healed now heals all our inner self. And so, miracles happen in the hearts of timid followers He lives in history. He lives in our faith. He lives in our community. He lives in those who are not of our community. His presence abides everywhere. He offers only soothing questions. At the same time He sees that the understanding happens in our heart. The Kingdom of God is made visible in Shalom. His resurrected presence is the foretaste of Parousia. The resounding anamnesis. Resilience of Goodness in all its richness, where narrow power-games gives way to the emergence of light, love and peace and cordiality. RESURRECTION - Empowers - Strengthens hope - Announces Good News of Fathers Kingdom: Peace be with you Let Love prevail over the power and success of Evil. The Nazarene walks with us. Let us together wait for the birth of the Church at Pentecost. Where our fathers finally broke free from the cocoon of fear into that wonderful life in faith.