“After August 1945, the USA launching two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we became aware that we can self-annihilate. That risk has increased with the arms race, including nine nations, with chemical and biological weapons and some 16,000 nuclear warheads. The current war between Russia and Ukraine made Putin threaten the use of nuclear weapons, bringing the apocalyptic fear of the end of the human species.
In this scenario, how to celebrate the greatest feast of Christendom which is Easter, the resurrection of the Crucified, Jesus of Nazareth? Resurrection must not be understood as the reanimation of a dead body like that of Lazarus. Resurrection, in the words of Saint Paul, represents the irruption of “novissimus Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45), that is to say, of the new human being, whose infinite virtualities present in him (we are an infinite project) fully emerge. In this way it appears as a revolution in evolution, an anticipation of the good end of human life. The Risen One gained a cosmic dimension, never left the world and fills the entire universe.“ (Leonardo Boff)
I’m not really in an Easter mood this Easter Sunday, so here are some photos from last week at a different church being put to better use (hater gonna hate).
No pastels for me today, thanks.
This was at an anti-nuke conference put together by @waagainstnuclearweapons; I was there to talk about art and activism.
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest place, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion, which led to the cross, then we can truly say, ‘Now I have begun.’” (Dorothy Day)