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7/28/2019 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