Death, we do not understand it. We are afraid of it and we are saddened when it happens. No one can really understand the reason, pain or anxieties it produces in the mind of the person who lost someone. We all try and then we get to a place of nothingness.
This is when our hope, just our hope in Christ should be evoked. We can only find meaning of death in the death of Christ Himself. For God so loved the world, that he gave His ONLY, ONLY son to be crucified and die a horrondous death. Why? May be love is expressed in the ultimate sacrifice. May be death is a way of saying what all we have experienced in this world is of no value and what awaits us is better and lasting. They are shining and beautiful. Love is found in ultimate sacrifice and all who die finally are able to say YES to God once and for all.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, let us surrender ourselves to Christ and hope in the resurrection of ourselves and those whom we love. In hoping we are also beginning to live again.
Everytime someone passes from this world to the next, life and resurrection is brought to experience. Let us give life through all what we do in life and death.
Fr. Jos
