Passover Never Ends: Resilient Hope

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    Passover Never Ends.

    Resilient Hope

    What an episode it its?

    Tumultuous and preposterous escapes

    That great escape, a Saga of faith, so the Bible say!

    Exodus

    From organized slavery of the ancients

    Transforming into people of the Promise: Gods Promise

    With a crowd-sourced and underrate Messiah

    Moses of new era of fledgling Humanity

    An era of federated cultural imperialism

    To advent ofan epoch called: God in History

    From lifeless gods of statutes and sexual occultismTo God who pacts with people, in them and for them

    Striving to translate that Promise from possibilities to actualities

    That Passover didnt end at all. Never did.

    Its two millennia now, almost, (so called Common Era begins)

    Of centuries of blood-letting, trickeries and dashed hopes

    Of decades of politically subverted religiosities

    Of years of manic leaders and equally prophetic mania

    Exiles after double-exiles;

    Refugees and aliens of the nation; with

    Rampant ANE- and Greek- inspired slaveriesOf powerful, trading people with their God of Hope

    The growth of elitist wisdoms

    Mushroomers and their abhorrent national cultism

    Derogating God of History with show of defiance.

    Gods interface with humans: in reverse engineered history

    Salvation choice is: obscurity over Spectacularity Christmas and veiled life

    (History necessitate Power over ordinary life)

    Hence, Gods yet another predestined dice

    Passover from God of Power to God of Humanity.

    From Social God to Personal God

    Thats the greatest Christian faith discovery

    in Christ of Faith

    So proclaimed by our faith advocate: Paul from Tarsus

    (Paul remaining Paul, never ceased to be Saul)

    Does Passover, anEn Passant?

    (taking away opponent piece, in opportune)

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    Jesus of Nazareth did get an en passant!

    He traded his life for supreme rejections

    His personal Passover began: this way,

    Nazareth expulsion

    Capernaum centre debacle

    Galilee campaign and progressive desertions

    Onto Jerusalem city beset with political and social snares

    All the way

    The mockery of Jerusalem entry

    Open face-off in temple prescient

    Blitz confrontation with contemporary statuesque

    Visible deterioration of trusts in celebrated band.

    Everyone knows the aftermath:

    Betrayalsummary trial sentence executionburial

    Theologically romantic title:

    Christ Event (suffering, death and resurrection)

    Obscuring the odors of daily strife;Salvific vista onto an outrageously nibbled-out life of a village sage

    Unacceptable events get often sublimated.

    Yet, Passover, not a token cultic act

    Not an Exodus sentence mark: death to every non-blood portals first-born

    No Christian Greek staining forehead with Christic blood

    To prove one as Christian

    The Blood of Christ not a mark of courage

    It is solidarity, for all Passovers of the centuries to come.

    Christian bloods in amphitheaters and CatacombsBloods of barbarian-turned-Christian martyrs

    Massive slaves, plebeians and social bucolic

    Monks, officials, handful of aristocrats

    The persecuted and persecutors

    In defense of holy land, death at stakes and at guillotines

    At every country-sides and Villa courtyards

    Trademark tangency ofcommitment to Christ

    Epitomizing that one bloody Passover of Jesus of Nazareth

    With numerous, to occur later.

    Our Historical Retrojection

    Doesnt match well

    With mechanized brutality of 20th

    century Passovers

    Bloods-baths at every national corridors & backyards

    Decades of peace, serenity and discoveries

    Overshadowed by humans ultimate cruelties to lives

    The grand icing over volcanic violence: LITTLE boy and FAT man!

    What an advent ofgreat Passover for the Aging Humanity!

    - Technology assisted, of course;

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    With heads and hearts sucked out of human-sense

    And millions of christs summarily crucified in fractions of seconds!

    The felt-irrelevances and irreverence of Christ of Faith

    Resorting to innovations

    Of pop-psychologies and potpourri professionalism

    Merry-go-wheel political conundrums

    Baffled mass over Ferris-wheeled corporate conglomerations

    Customizing Christ for saleable global cultures

    As packages for resale!

    Communities absolutely forgot!

    Of tumultuous Passover

    Of Mediterranean messiah

    Jesus of Nazareth.

    His Passover

    Still stands as a point of referenceEncountering the social mess

    Some call corruption, a fashionable term

    And socially despicable watch-ward, injustice

    The NT Passover has got flip-dimension;

    Death does lead to life.

    God isnt numb about human struggles and suffering;

    That rejections and denials

    Does lead to fulfillment

    OfGods own better Promise.

    Creational promise, Covenantal promise, Christ promise

    All remains

    As Passover Promises

    Of hope

    Of courage

    Of resilience

    Of goodness, peace and hope.

    That

    Passover never ends,

    While being Passover ofChrist of Humanity;

    For sure.

    Don Bosco Center

    Yellagiri Hills, Tamil Nadu - INDIA

    05:40 PM, Easter Morning, 2013