History has not ended; instead, everything begins now. Death no longer has the last word over the Poor One; on the contrary, it was he who, giving himself up to death, bent it to submission and took away its most fearful sting.
Christ rose from the dead. His “Passover” through death would give birth and would allow the Kingdom to bloom, something which Jesus, during his life on earth, was not able to achieve. Jesus, resurrected and alive, is the ultimate reason for the community of disciples, for the Church and its universal transhistorical expansion.
The grain of wheat, dead and buried under the earth, is now a golden spike swaying in the breeze. From death, life is born; from humiliation, glory and exaltation. The Poor One from Nazareth is now the Lord Jesus. Because he was free, he was available; and because he was available, he could be the servant of the Father and of the brothers. From poverty to love.
That loving, self-giving to the will of the Father dug an infinite void, like a tunnel; the projection and communication of God-Love in the history of humankind was realized; and that tunnel, that absolute emptiness of self, has a name: Jesus of Nazareth. This is the summary of a unique history of the incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that can never be repeated.
HAPPY EASTER RESURRECTION
Extracted from the book The Poor One of Nazareth, by Fr. Ignacio Larranaga
