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| CARDINAL PIZZABALLA AT THE HOLY SEPULCHRE ON EASTER SUNDAY |
CARDINAL PIZZABALLA AT THE HOLY SEPULCHRE ON EASTER SUNDAY:
'No people, no language, no history is excluded from this hope. If death has been conquered, then no life is “too lost” to be sought.
Easter is universal because it is born in a specific, concrete, real place—here—and for this very reason it can truly reach the whole world.
This is not an abstract thought. We are standing in the place where the stone was rolled away, yet we know all too well that many stones remain sealed around us. Too many tombs have been dug again by hatred, violence, and retaliation. In this Holy Land, which is the mother of faith and has also become a land of constant conflict, the question resounds with dramatic force: “Where have you laid him?” For it seems that we place the Lord back in a tomb every time we believe that death has the final word over history, every time we resign ourselves to the logic of the enemy, every time we call an armed truce “peace” and the calculation of damage “justice.”
But Easter tells us this: the Risen One is not confined within our strategies for survival. He is a prisoner neither of our reasoning nor of our fears. He has already gone forth, and he goes before us'
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