Happy Easter, despite everything and because of everything.

 

 

Happy Easter, despite everything and because of everything.

Here I am, after a few weeks of silence.
I arrived in Italy on February 25th, where I spent the first 2 weeks in quarantine, as per the requirements of the law.
After quarantine, I was able to celebrate Mass in suffrage for my mother, on Saturday, March 13, together with my family, some relatives and friends.
I wasn't able to move around to various towns because of the pandemic, and next week, Easter Monday, I will be leaving for Central Africa.
In Italy, spring is on its way, however complicated it has been due to Covid, which continues to affect many people.
The situation is difficult, and many are in trying times; the sick, as well as the healthy, the elderly and the young, families and children. The economy has been drastically affected, and relationships are being strained and becoming increasingly more difficult.
There is a lot of fear for the present, but also for the future.  Yet there is hope, even if small and a little wavering.
There is still the risk of seeing others as a danger, but there is also a great need and desire for affection, hugs and the call to help others.
There is also, unfortunately, the fear of death.
There is for many the Faith, the resurfacing of the meaning of life, and of the meaning of the gift of life.  All of which hold many things, both small and large, that are part of it, which at times we often lose sight of when things go well.
With this, precisely in these upcoming days, the great Easter event is here: the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. An invitation and the memory that, despite everything, life is a gift.  With that everything, even the difficulties, the tragedies, the doubts and the fears, is part of the journey that brings us closer to God, and to true life.

Happy Easter!

 Bocca di Magra

 Loano