When the question is the answer itself. “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?”

I believe in the resurrection of body and in the eternal life; Thy will be done. It might be strange to read in one single sentence short details both from the Apostle’s Creed and from the Our Father prayer. As strange as the present pandemic situation is, since many of us -better say billions of us- have been experiencing for the very first time what happens when our life style turns upside down in no minute time.

“Our lives around will never ever be the same again” – is the often heard statement in relation to the pandemic outbreak. No one can tell whether so or not, and if so, would it be better or worse than before.

Our future condition largely depends on how we evaluate it and how we put it into shape, what is our reference point on which our relationship with the things of our lives is based upon.

Historic events, extraordinary peoples’ acts, all these do inevitably carry the chance of revising, changing people’s entire life so far. Wars, epoch-making inventions, impressive thinkers, writers, scientists, politicians, as well as military leaders, each and every of them reshapes in a certain way or other our closer or wider world. Should we think alike, then our future might not seem so worrying since the cycle is just the same, there is nothing very special about it: the change is constant.

At the end of the fast period, now approaching the Holy Week, Christians are more and more attuned by soul to experience those events after which the life of the humankind could never ever have been the same as it used to be. After all the most moving phrase ever “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” -triggering joy and confusion at the same time- had been heard in Jesus’ empty tomb, when two men in shining dress put up this question to the women looking for Jesus’ body.

“I believe in the resurrection of the flesh and of the eternal life.” That is what still does not allow to turn our natural human worries into a deadly fear. That is what liberates us from the fears, but not by a negligent and dumb acceptance of our fate, but rather through the certainty of the joyful belief that Jesus had overcome the death.

When things are going on smoothly, when life is easier, we are praying rather too easily. Maybe routinely, without feeling the profound meaning of the words. The test of faith in God, that is the difficult situation. That is the moment when words of the payer are getting weight, when upon our life’s reference point, we can sincerely say with profound faith: Thy will be done!

On earth as it is in heaven!

IEC Secretariat

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