Easter Season Reflection

Yesterday's "Mediation of the Day" from Magnificat was a great reflection for this Easter season.  It's from Giuseppe Ricciotti, identified as "a highly respected Italian Scripture scholar" who died in 1964.

Certain it is that Jesus is today more alive than ever among us.   All have need of him, either to love him or to curse him, but they cannot do without him.  Many people in the past have been loved with extreme intensity -- Socrates by his disciples, Julius Caesar by his legionaries, Napoleon by his soldiers.  But today they belong irrevocably to the past; not a heart beats at their memory. There is no one who would give his life or even his possessions for them even though their ideals are still being advocated.  And when their ideals are opposed, no one ever thinks of cursing Socrates or Julius Caesar or Napoleon, because their personalities no longer have any influence; they are bygones.  But not Jesus;  Jesus is still loved, and he is still cursed;  people still renounce their possessions and even their lives both for love of him and out of hatred for him.

No living being is as alive as Jesus.