~카 구 라 요 ~

Easter is a time when Christians remember Jesus who has died on a cross and rise again. This remembrance also included in part of the mass when we receive Holy Communion. However, this message is not just about communion as receiving body of Christ, but also being ‘in’ with Christ.

Communion is not just receiving the body of Christ, but also means being together in the community. Togetherness brings us into one church, to be united as Christians.

So we remember the Jesus being crucified on the cross to save us, but we need to ask, save us from what? Sin? What have we done so much for a son of God to be crucified?

We need to look deeper on what is the core of our sin, which started from our self, one self, ‘me’.  It is all about me, individualism and not being part of the community.

We asked forgiveness to God, but reconciliation is not just being ‘me and God’. It is more into being open again to the community and be back together as one Church.

Similarly, the Ten Commandments encourage us to love our God and our neighbours. These two are the foundation of being in one community of the Church, the foundation of our Christianity.

Hope this Easter can remind us to be back again as part of the community; to bow down from our self and serve one another as what Jesus taught us on Holy Thursday, to give ourselves entirely to God and His purpose shown by Jesus on Good Friday, and to rejoice in God’s glory, shown by the Resurrection for a new life.

xoxo

little. t