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Nazarene Walks with UsEaster 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 defeatover death the victory of resurrection was established.

In resurrection we received faith to believe and hope to realize. Whenthe disciples felt ahead a dead-end, when they begun to think that thereis nothing out there beyond Calvary, there glowed the good news ofShalom. We are like disciples living behind closed doors and windows.

Let our faith glow through suffering. Let us not deny the place of cross inour life. Cross is the root of our faith in resurrection. Through cross,Gods grace is revealed. Cross without Christ has no meaning. Christthrough cross teaches the uncompromising, radical principle ofKingdom. Love for all. And cross is the final question that our Father

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makes to the world not of judgement, not of retribution, but of abidingpeace.

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, Hejoins hands with us ( Emmaus ).

In our absurd toil at sea, He comes as captain who command us tocast net where He knew the catch would be ( Galilee lake ).

At the end of our hungry days, He prepares the meal and waits at theshore ( 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 ( MagdaleneMary ).

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 nowords 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 . Jesuspresents himself as He was and is and will be .

He, the great interface of convergence. Transcendence and Immanencefuses in Transparentialities the Sacramented truths.

No transcendental glory of Tabor. His transfigured body enters whereno one could penetrate our closed doors and windows. Our barricadesof human limitations break open at his forbearance.

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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 resurrectedpresence is the foretaste of Parousia . The resounding anamnesis .Resilience of Goodness in all its richness, where narrow power-gamesgives way to the emergence of light, love and peace and cordiality.

RESURRECTION- Empowers- Strengthens hope- Announces Good N ews 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 thatwonderful life in faith.