All over the world, we are called to release people from imprisonment. If we are to do that, each of us we must ask what imprisons me? I suppose that it is always the fear of loving fully.
Love is dangerous. Herbert McCabe OP used to say, ‘If you love, you will be hurt, maybe killed. If you don’t love, you are dead already.’ The Risen Christ is wounded. We need not fear getting hurt. Take the risk of loving more.
Neither should we be oppressed by the fear of death.
One of my best friends in the Order, David Sanders, died recently of the covid-19. When he learnt that he was dying, he asked me for a good book on death! He was unafraid to look it in the face. He said, ‘If I have been preaching the resurrection all these years, I had better show that I believe in it.’
One of my best friends in the Order, David Sanders, died recently of the covid-19. When he learnt that he was dying, he asked me for a good book on death! He was unafraid to look it in the face. He said, ‘If I have been preaching the resurrection all these years, I had better show that I believe in it.’
Finally, on this Easter Day, let us reach out to any of our brothers or sisters in our communities who seem isolated. Let no one feel alone today. Let us open the door for each other.
Let us breathe freely of God’s oxygen, the Holy Spirit who will soon be sent. A sister in the Ecole Biblique was suffering from asthma. She was given some oxygen. She said, ‘This is heaven. I can breathe.’ Let us breathe freely the oxygen of God, the Holy Spirit.
Samuel Beckett was born on this day in 1906. And now we are all waiting for Godot? Or are we?
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