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Readings: Acts of the Apostle 10:34, 37-43In 2017, the DCEU released a movie titled The Justice League. At the end of that movie, Lois Lane, the love interest of Superman, gave a short exposition as a conclusion to the movie. This is what she said, “Darkness, the truest of darkness, is not the absence of light. It is the conviction that the light will never return. But the light always returns, to show us things familiar — home, family and things entirely new or long overlooked.
What does this have to do with our celebration of Easter? For the past three years, we’ve lived through a sort of darkness, the sort that nearly paralysed our lives and destroyed our hope. Many people were nearly convinced that there would never be a light at the end of the tunnel. Now, we emerge once again into the light of life. It’s not that the light abandoned us, it is just that we were not able to recognise it in our lives.
Light and water are central elements of our Easter celebration. The light of Christ shines out brightly through the darkness of our lives to bring to light what is hidden deep in ourselves. The Paschal Candle is lit to remind us of this eternal light. Other than lighting our darkness, the heat of the flame also “burns” away what is impure in our hearts and souls.
Of course, once these impurities are “melted” away from us, there has to be some means to cleanse it properly. This is where the waters of Baptism come into play. The water that we bless during the Easter Vigil is not just used for the Sacraments of Initiation, it is also sprinkled on us as part of the Easter Liturgy. Other than reminding us of our Baptism, it also “washes” away all the impurities that came from the heat of the flame of the Paschal Candle.
As Andy Dufresne states so aptly in the movie The Shawshank Redemption, ‘hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.’ We can find real hope if we know where to look; if we look for hope in the things of this world, then our hope will be nothing but a fleeting emotion. If, however, we look to Christ as our source of hope, then it is a hope that will never die because Jesus gave us the promise that He will be always with us until the end of time.
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