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On Focus
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RELEASE
- By Sansu Garin
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RELEASED. What a liberating word! After the long
sleepless nights, hectic days of nearly “losing” sanity,
breathing and subsisting on the stress, finally, the work is
completed and the report is released! Released!!!
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My work is ruled by deadlines. Although the heavy workload
is seasonal (normally every tax season, which coincides with
the Lenten season and spills over the Easter season),
the deadlines happen almost all at the same time.
So inevitably, my life becomes schedule and deadline bound,
too. (In fact, I am also rushing this article to meet the
GNB deadline!)
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Report releasing is the culmination of each engagement I’m
involved in. But that’s the rather easy part, what goes on
before that is what’s truly backbreaking, and, at times,
really nerve-racking. So you can picture the joy, the
relief, the hallelujahs that gush out from my lips once a
report is no longer in my hands, meaning, it’s now another
person’s responsibility, then ultimately…released. Not only
the report, myself as well!
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Imagine my joy that I’ve just described. Or consider the
most joyful moment you can think about. It could be your
first love, first baby and other “events of the firsts.”
Or something like the joy when the captive takes his first
step without the shackles of bondage, the blind perceives
images for the first time, the deaf’s silent world is broken
by a sound and the mute utters the first articulate word.
Wondrous moments! And equally awesome feelings!
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All these feelings we can conceive are nevertheless
inconsequential to what Mary Magdalene, Peter and John, and
the rest of the disciples must have felt when they learned
that the Lord Jesus has risen from the dead. (Matthew 28,
Mark 16, Luke 24 or in John 20). We could glean from the
Gospels that they probably ran the full gamut of feelings -
from fear, unbelief, then joy, indescribable, sheer joy!
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Do we feel this kind of joy during Easter? Do we take time
to reflect on and recognize the full import of what this
great feast actually means to us, to our faith, to what we
ultimately become? Or in the mundane life we live during
these modern times, do we just commemorate it because it is
what we have come to expect every liturgical year?
Celebrated today. Forgotten tomorrow.
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The significance of Easter is seen in the Resurrection.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
“The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our
faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central
truth by the first Christian community; handed on as
fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of
the New Testament; and, preached as an essential part of the
Paschal mystery along with the cross...” (Part of Statement
638, Paragraph 2 of Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 2, Article
5). Likewise, as Saint Paul puts it, “And if Christ has not
been raised, our preaching is empty and our belief comes to
nothing.” (1 Corinthians 15:14). We find the foundation of
our faith in Christ in His Resurrection. It confirms once
and for all that Jesus is truly God. His Resurrection also
gives us the assurance that there is a life eternal.
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As we celebrate Easter, let us pray that our Lord Jesus
Christ will release us from the hardness that binds our
hearts, the blindness of our eyes, the deafness of our ears,
the silence of our lips, and all the other “lukewarm-ness”
of our faith. That we may actively proclaim the glory of
our faith and live in the sheer joy of His presence. Not
only today, but for the rest of our lives. Here and in the
next.
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All Glory to God!
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