Here are i holy days, the most important of the year, here is the Easter, the most beautiful party. Centuries of Vie Crucis they made us neglect the first and after. On Thursday, with the dinner prepared for the closest friends, the lavender of the feet. But even here, more than the Lord bent to serve the brothers, moves me the friend who speaks to friends, who leaves his will, in words.
We know how much Jesus is the park of words: PArabole, quotes of writing, the heart of the Gospel in the beatitudes. But in short, we would judge his Essential oratory, never redundant. Instead, the Holy Thursday, in the Last Supper, dwells, he almost liked Finish that time of intimacy so deep and free.
Even when he comes out of the Upper Cenacle he explains to his not to be troubled, dialogues with Filippo, who awaits the miracle of a sudden revelation (“show us the Father”), prophesy the gift of the Holy Spirit, and the Parusìa. We continue with John, the disciple who had previously posed his head on his heart: “Stay in my love … love each other … you are my friends …”. And again: «The world will hate you, will persecute you, but they will also observe your word. Testimony ».
And finally, “have courage, I won the world … I don’t ask only for these but for those who will believe in me through their word”. We are us. The history of Christianity is all here, prefigured, explained with all its dogmas, the centuries of sins and glory, of suffering and joy, tradition, prayer, unit of believers, relationship with the world, the commandment of love (a command, not an option).
Here is already Easter and Easter is the strength of Christians, The lively hope present. “If Christ was not risen, our faith is vain,” writes Saint Paul. We do not announce the resurrection of Christ enough. We don’t remember it enough, among us. Surrexit. So we can rise again, she promised it. So the greatest drama and the most urgent desire for man can dissolve in Easter light. We did not come to the world for nothing. We will not lose the good of our loved ones. The Church will not be defeated. The evil we see will not have the last word. Even the innocent evil, which prostrates us in skepticism, will not win forever. The greats of the world will be judged. The pain will not be in vain. It is madness, from vertigo. How many times can we ask ourselves “but it’s really true?”, Because we are not naive and the reason is given to us to use it. But The resurrection of Christ who then returns to eat fish with his friends, who full of certainty in Pentecost, are facts. We can delete them and think that the apostles and their followers and “those who believed for their testimony” are crazy but the wider reason still asks the question: crazy for 2000 years? Crazy of charity, of faith, of hope and with them of hymns, icons, cathedrals, philosophy, poetry, hospitals, rivers of boys who pass the crushed cross … all the madmen? Or is it worth tieing the promise of Holy Thursday at dawn on Sunday? It was even for a bet, it would be enough.
