We are eight days of Holy Week and Easter fortnight. Already the cross of Christ stands before us as a prophetic sign, as an expression of New Covenant. For Jesus, the time is right to give his life and this time he desired, while the fearful. And we, how do we prepare for death?
because you never know when or under what circumstances we will have to live our last visit. Usually, we avoid asking this question, it scares us, we fear it, it seems too far-reaching consequences. Yet even if one seeks to delay the inevitable, it nevertheless remains that death will eventually catch up with us one day or another, whether we like it or not. So far face reality and seek ways to prepare for it sincerely.
Notice that Jesus does not philosophize before death. It does not respond. He lives simply to die as an obedience to his fragile human condition as solidarity with suffering humanity. There is nothing to understand death, except that she is the obligatory passage to live forever.
importantly, do not believe that Jesus was glad to die. In the letter to the Hebrews, St. Paul shows us that Jesus is torn. He understands that he must give his life. He is aware of the drama being played out, but it is in the tears he finally agrees to give to the end.
The problem for us is that we would rise again before I die!
With simple words, however, Jesus will put hope in our hearts that we so desperately need. In this little grain of wheat comes down all our lives. Indeed, all nature reveals to us the mystery of the resurrection. Just observe our environment, to contemplate the life around us. "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much fruit. That is what Jesus tells us today. What he lived, what he saw, so he invites us to live our turn.
It will be an entirely new Alliance. For now, it's part of us that this hope: "if I be lifted up, will draw all men to myself."
At eight days of Holy Week, it is good to repeat once again the health check of our faith: are we willing to die to ourselves to bear fruit and give life to others?
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