Hosanna

What are the signs that our lives are open towards life even in the midst of pain and anxiety due to the pandemic, deaths, sorrow...?

"The Kingdom of God is within you," he said. 

The signs of lives also will surely be within and among us,

even within those entering into the mystery of death.

Seeing Him dying, the one near to him saw paradise in Him,

and another the light of righteousness.

Time passes through gloom and fear of CoVid-19

Should there not some new tender sprouts during this transformation into a new person?

We must sing Hosanna raising those tender sprouts of new hope.

Hope is a sign that the life of God is really active in us. We are are being formed and transformed every moment in that life. Only then we can live as Christ, in his life, death, and resurrection.

It is a life-process to live and complete the life-giving mystery of Christ, as a person and as a community; to be human like Christ, to sacrifice life like Him, and lead many to life.

This week is a remembrance of self-emptying and sacrifice. May we be able to imitate the life-giving sacrifice of Christ, to live that life, prepare our minds and to plan as possible for these on going efforts. Our own surrounding is the Jerusalem and Calvary for us. Unless we bring the sacrificial moments to our everyday moments, we cannot live as Christ. Such attitudes of life-giving sacrifice  are more required than ritualistic abstinence. 

These were the mind of Christ,

It was not like a judge that he offered forgiveness,

it was not like a miracle worker that he offered healing;

he offered life by emptying himself,

extending comfort in sorrows, life in death.

To pass on comfort, life, and healing like Christ,

we need to be able to empty our selves, and fill ourselves with life.

A real sacrifice is to keep aside the boundaries that provide 'special'ness/ highness

redemption is to take others to one's own richness of life, and enable to live.

(it is liberative to reflect on the boundaries that Christ challenged and destroyed. We may be able to recognize those boundaries that have taken a place equal eve to God).

The simple deeds flowing from a vision of life-fullness in self emptying sacrifice are the signs of hope during these time of pain, the sincere sacrificial rituals of the way of Christ.

Hosanna (God saves)

Lord, we pray;

Grant us life and strength.

Let us take joyfully the fresh shoots of new branches,

hoping that they will flower, bear fruits,

with an attitude to sacrifice life, and fill many with lives.