“With the perspective offered by the incipient and often bloody novelty of viral Easter – of ‘virus’, not of ‘virtue’ – some of the protagonists of that and this claim special mention”
With or without “coronavirus”, or with not as many as those that have been macabre, especially in Spain, every week is holy. Some will be more so than others, but such condition will depend exclusively on grammar, statistics, the informative spaces they deserve, tourist programs or liturgical or para-liturgical assessment, as much or more than piety or of true devotion
With the perspective offered by the incipient, and so often bloody, novelty of viral Easter – of “virus”, not of “virtue” -, some of the protagonists of that and this.
For the behaviors of the rulers, attention and remembrance first, as well as the offering of sacrifices and prayers, along with some warnings, protests and, in specific cases, our blessings. Herod, Pontius Pilate, President of the Government, ministers, general directors and others and others, have to be examined in their day, through the ascription of the votes, depending on the capacity of service and availability that they had and exercised for the benefit of the people, prior to the information and technical advice to which they claim to have submitted. Improvisation and disloyalty to the electoral promises they made before are, and will be, infallible, eloquent and definitive partisan references.
In the first EasterWith the exception of some “hosannas” of the people, in favor of Jesus and what he represented for personal and collective liberation, the people-people went and behaved like a populace. To everyone’s misfortune, this is an important part of his vocation, profession and trade, just as he was, and he is still educated …
The women of the Virtual Easter they are –they continue to be–, the women of all times Servants, servants, faithful companions, exposed to inclement domestic conditions, – often until they are mistreated and executed – and without being able to pronounce more words than those of “Amen”, that of “¡ hosanna¡ ”family to the liking of the husband, or the resigned of“ whatever God wants! ”
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The women of the first Easter repeat his examples, which make it last, of religious activity and attitude accompanying Jesus to his last dramatic consequences of Calvary, preparing and cleaning the table of the sacrament, discreetly warning Pontius Pilate not to get into trouble and not sign the edict condemnation of the Innocent par excellence, Veronica, vigilant and guardian of the holy sepulcher and without even thinking of becoming as truthful messengers, chosen by Jesus himself, to communicate to the Apostles – all men? – the sacrosanct gospel of his resurrection, after having heard from the lips of they that “yes, that some stunned and restless women – women things – nourished with dreams and illusions, found the tomb empty, with an angel at its door”.
These and those women- today they are the first female doctors in medicine and in the sciences and sacred care of nursing, produced by the damned “coronaviruses”.
Of the behavior of High Priests, official servants of the temple in Jerusalem, guardians of the hundreds and “religious” norms and rules contained in the Holy Books, it is worth noting that “The thing of Jesus” was never with them. His office and ministry were those of representing a righteous God at the service of his own economic and social interests, and always with the fear that someone, least of all Jesus of Nazareth, would come to question them, especially after he had directed expletives at them. such as that of “whitewashed graves.”
The soldiers and professionals of the first Holy Week had nothing to do with those of the current “coronavírica”. These – health workers in a variety of functions, law enforcement, firefighters, gravediggers and much of the population – are and will be “forever and ever” true examples of solidarity, of availability and service to the people-people, assuming all kinds of risks, even the most serious ones that would lead to their death. Their own corpses are reproductions of the corpse of Jesus himself …
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Of the thieves and companions At the crucifixion on Calvary, I limit myself to reviewing only that one was “good” and the other not so much. And there are many thieves Some make themselves, but the most were made by society, the laws and, of course, the same precepts of those who claim to be “religious”, since the evangelical proclamation of “do what they say, but not what they do ”. The thieves became friends of Jesus at their respective crosses – these twin and sanctify everyone – and the two, that is, the three, met at the gates of heaven.
At Holy Weeks scheme, also in the “coronavírica” of this year, the editions of the “lives and miracles” of the Apostle Pedro and his denials, like that of Judas and his thirty denarii, and those of the majority of the members of the Apostolic College, Both on paper and virtual, they will be available to those who lend and confess Christians. The content is the same. Identical and painless. The scenes of the Passion of the Lord, the same. Unanimously also the cry of “cry not for me, but for you and your children …!”
It is fair to recognize that, in general terms, the Christian community, is assuming this new Holy Week with religiosity and obedience to the civically established norms, with the exception of some scene starring some priest misplaced by the roofs, towers, squares and streets of those towns of God, in addition to the decisions of bishops, cisnerianos for more signs – “these are my powers!” -, with their mittens, and without the mask being present anywhere religious or pagan.
By the way, How do you preach with a mask? Do the people of God understand the evangelical message if it is preached to them in this way, if they continue to do it with a miter and a staff, and sit in the sacred chair?
