The Personal Union with God

The lock down is, rightly, extended for some more time to make sure the Pandemic Covid-19 is completely ostracized from our midst. Though the decision is absolutely necessary for our survival, for us the ordinary whose sustenance are dependent on our daily earnings, it has given some reason for anxiety and worry . Our resources are running dry, what will we do, will we have work when everything re-opens etc.

It is also noted that the churches and other places of worship will remain closed for prayers and worship. Alternative technology enhanced measures are on to live stream the prayer leaders and the worship they conduct giving us the chance to be part of it, the fact that these hardships have taught us is that our spirituality basically depends on our personal connect with our, God, the Creator.

Those who have that personal connection, those who can pray when they are alone and with themselves will continue to have that richness of union with our Lord and survive the crisis of our times.

Connect with God in your own way, in the fullness of your heart no matter where you are and who you are with. It doesn't matter whether we are by ourselves or with others or at a particular place. 

Happy Easter!

Wish you all the unbridled joy of Easter. Recalling to mind the happiness of Magdalene when she saw the risen Christ who was taken away from them on the Night of Thursday and killed on Friday. The last time she saw Him was on the cross and in Mother Mary's arms as they prepared Him to be buried. Lost and lonely, they spent the entire Sabbath thinking about every moment He had spent with them, sobbing with every breath in grief, disappointed at the lost. Perhaps, they might have remembered what He told them about the resurrection after three days, but to believe it or to even expect it under the political and spiritual set up they were in might have been stretching it too far.

Hence, her Joy on seeing Jesus. To think about her Unbridled Joy of seeing Jesus again, that He has Risen from the dead, that Father, the Creator, has glorified Him just as he glorified the Father,  is a blessing. From her, the apostles heard the news and was overjoyed, though some doubted, still it was a source of big comfort for them since Thursday night.

We stand in this generation as part of that long spiritual Chain, who has felt that same unbridled joy in the rising of the Christ, which Magdalene has felt, the apostles have felt,  the disciples who accepted Jesus's way through them have felt and all those over the generation who have walk in Jesus's Way have felt.

As mere humans and simple lifers of our present time, the everlasting and ever constant Easter is our only true joy which we hold in our heart as our treasure.

May what is written for us, fall on us in these times of Corona,  let us be joyful in our Lord, as long as we are here.

Thank You Magdalene, we share your joy and hold you in our hearts as our own. 

Easter in the times of Corona Virus

Completely locked Down during this historic Lent. Cannot recall an instance when the whole world went through a Lent as lonely as this. Thanks to the technology, people had a better access to church activities around the world, not just their Parish Churches.

The free time and the lone time encouraged taking an inward Journey, which turned out to be a blessing. Watching the movie on Jesus during the lock down was a big spiritual boost. Robert Powell's brilliant characterization of the 1976 movie Jesus of Nazreth stood out among the other movie alternatives.

Here is a you tube link to the movie which is 6 hours long.

Jesus of Nazreth