et verbum caro factum est

   The  Resurrection is the blossoming of the seed  Jesus has always borne within him.  In the Resurrection, that which had lain dormant from the beginning in the vital existence of the Son of Man and God becomes apparent. My existence appears to begin with my birth and ends with death.  Before it lies a darkness so complete that it seems incredible that I ever could have begun to exist at all.  After it, again  a darkness. In Jesus this is not so.  He does not begin with his birth, but  rather "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh,"  and  He knew it in his very bones. "Before Abraham came to be,  I am" he told the Pharisees. (John 8:58)  

An Easter poem

Transport

The rose, for all its behavior,
is smaller than the lifelove it stands for,
only briefly brightening,
and even its odor
only a metaphor.
Or so we suppose
just as we suppose the savior
we employ or see next door
is only some hired man
gardening.

Marie Ponsot

How many crosses have been borne up and down in elevators of our buildings

   Jesus did not invent the cross. He, like every person, found it on his journey. The newness in his message was to plant the seed of love in our bearing of the Cross. The element of love turned the way of the Cross into a way that leads to life. The Cross itself became a message of love: a means of transformation. Our cross is also the Cross of Jesus!
This cross first embraces each of us, and entrusts us with a duty in our personal life, in our families, among our friends and acquaintances - in sum, with whoever else's cross we encounter. I think of the many broken