Easter calls us to recommit to building relationships

It’s Easter but we’re living in dark and uncertain times, writes Fr Frank Brennan SJ. Source: The Australian.

When it comes to the waging of modern warfare, morality seems to count for little and international law for even less. Tactics are unpredictable. Strategy is piecemeal. Objectives are varied and uncertain, the latest being: “We are going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”

Our politics is no longer anchored in values or in interests. Even the most secure of alliances are unanchored. Children and grandchildren have no assurance that they will enjoy the same peace, security, prosperity and wellbeing as their parents and grandparents. They may not even be able to afford a roof over their heads.

So what can be said about goodwill and hope this Easter? Religious or not, where are we to find hope? Whatever our religion or none, how are we to find the inner resources to show goodwill individually, collectively and nationally, when it is not reciprocated?

This weekend we Christians, no matter what the perilous circumstances in which we find ourselves, joyfully declare that the Lord is risen, that hope triumphs, ultim­ately.

… on this Easter Day, gathering with family and loved ones, recalling those loved ones who have gone before us, we dare to imagine and we recommit ourselves to building relationships, both personal and diplomatic, which cultivate life, hope, sincerity and truth.

Those of us who are Christian pray for tomorrow, and ultimately the life to come, when all will be one, in love, when all will be known, in truth. Believing in another world, we hope to live in bliss.

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‘Stand with each other, wish peace for this beautiful land’ at Easter (By Fr Frank Brennan SJ, The Australian)