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* Rabbits and eggs for non-Latin scholars

For several weeks now that the stores announce Easter with lots of chocolate bunnies and plush, eggs of all sizes and in all matters, both edible and washable, which nests and daisies adorn the windows of shops. And if Easter, it was more than this? And if we had lost the true meaning of this long weekend, eagerly anticipated by all? And if Easter, it was ultimately more than rabbits and eggs?

Ask small children around you, how many will still tell you what is Easter, in its true sense? The pagan has taken precedence over the sacred! Friday is the opportunity to sleep late, rather than live through a morning, as recalled, not long ago, one of our pastors. On Sunday, if weather is good, it's time for a trip with the whole family piled into the car if it's bad to spend a day watching TV DVD. The church? - We will go next year. Anyway, it is the same thing every year!

Find the true taste of things. Back to the authentic, not in a nostalgic sense and disillusioned, but in a real desire to make any sense at Easter, its true meaning: it is primarily the injustice triumph. Jesus, the righteous, the innocent, is condemned. It is man who suffers and cries to his God. Is death shows its power on a cross. It is the expectation ... three long days when hope leaves gradually way to resignation, doubt ... the abandonment ! Finally, it is the light of Easter morning, death laid low at the door of the tomb by the divine power of the true Life. It is Jesus Christ, that each of us becomes the Risen, whom God raised from the dead. It is the joy to announce to the world that the promise that the Son had made the disciples did indeed achieved, despite all the possible scientific denials.
should not prove it, he must believe!

So if you want to dress up a string of Easter bunnies, chicks and eggs dyed, except that of decoration to prettify the landscape to be "politically correct", why not? But it's like to add a delicious sauce of ketchup fell because the kids love it! It ruins everything, it is perhaps a little fun to some, but ultimately, it dilutes all the fine ingredients.

Happy Easter, Father's love in the loving beyond all, in the light of one who resurrected and in the communion of the Spirit that makes us the true meaning of things.

Image source: personal photo (c) January 2008.