Easter Rebirth

IF EASTER 2015 means new life, what is new in my life and in the life of our society today?

If Easter means the end of a passage, the reaching point of a passover, what is finally achieved in the area of personal and social transformation?

What was darkly deformed in me and in my fellow Filipinos before this brightly formed Easter Sunday morning?

Morally deformed has been our personal and social obligation to conform to the demands of justice in our relationships with God and to the demands of justice in our people’s social, economic, political, and cultural relationships.

Jesus Christ took our moral deformities with Him to the cross and died there so that looking at His deformed body we might reform and transform our lives and conform to the demands of justice in all its forms.

The radiant splendor of Easter, shown in the resurrection of the Glorious Crucified, is the beauty of form—the inner and outer forms of character of a new and reborn person!

Hence, the Russian novelist Feodor Dostoyevsky was right: “It is only beauty that can save the world!” For indeed, true beauty is soul-deep, not skin-deep.