Waiting for Easter, the most important holiday for all Christians
Colombo (AsiaNews) - "This is the most important week of the year for Christians around the world." "Because, as Saint Paul says, if Jesus hadn’t rose from the dead, all our faith would be in vain. " The Catholic Dominican priest Jayalath Balagalla and the Anglican bishop of Columbus Msgr. Duleep de Chikera talk to AsiaNews about Holy Week, sacred moment for all Christians.
Father Balagalla speaks of Holy Triduum, which began yesterday and which the Sinhalese faithful experience together, as every year, remembering that the "Triduum is a unique event, even if we celebrate three separate events: the institution of the Eucharist, the crucifixion and resurrection." "The resurrection is central to our faith, and after the resurrection Jesus appeared first to some women, first to Mary Magdalene. Although in Jewish society what women said was not held in high regard. " "But Mary Magdalene and the other women went first to the tomb early in the morning, something unusual, but they really loved Jesus." The Sri Lankan faithful gather for the vigil of Easter, or the next morning for Holy Mass, in the Gospel story of that morning rediscover the shock, surprise and then finally the joy of believers and disciples of Jesus, finding the empty tomb and then, in the encounter with eth Risen Lord.
"Thus the resurrection has become a fact, for the first disciples. St. Paul says that he will rise again each time. We often forget this, but it's more important, its what changes our lives. Jesus now lives with us and loves us. "
Bishop de Chikera speaks of the resurrection as a victory of life over death, " justice and love over lies and violence" and sees the Passover as "the feast that calls us to abandon the evil that humans do and to embrace a life guided by freedom and generosity that God gives us. "
For the Anglican bishop this is a daily commitment, so that "that a mother should never again mourn the senseless death of her son, as too often happened during the long civil war. So that "the poor no longer have to seek work in distant lands and journalists have to flee their country of birth. So that people no longer have to languish in camps for refugees, but are free to go and build their homes where they want”,The bishop, in celebration of this day, recalled the many ills of Sri Lankan society, also caused by man, with the hope that "freedom makes us free and that we become a risen people passing from darkness to light, despair to hope. "
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