Easter Resurrection
Massimo Palombella
The Resurrection is not something that from the outside, almost magically, changes our lives.
The Resurrection belongs to us, it is in every fibre of our being, it is embedded in our ancestral relationships, it has its DNA written in the folds of our personal history, it is present in our wounds that make us suffer so much, just as it was present in the wounds inflicted on Jesus, to such an extent that we contemplate Christ the “Pantocrator” with the marks of his passion.
In our lives, the Resurrection is an unassuming process that originates from an existential encounter capable of constituting an indelible “salvific” relationship where, not without effort, rebellion and suffering, the Lord gently and firmly leads us to the truth.
The Resurrection is a great and slow journey that empowers us more and more each day to be ready for the encounter of our lives where we will see God “face to face” and in Him, in a definite manner, we will recognise ourselves.
In the Easter Vigil of the Roman and Ambrosian Rites (respectively, the Responsorial Psalm after the 7th reading and the Hymn after the 6th reading) there is Psalm 41 with the following text:
“Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.”
(As a deer longs for the springs of water, so my soul longs for Thee, O God).
The accompanying music is by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrtina (Liber II Motectorum Quatuor Vocum [Mediolani, Apud Franciscum & Hæredes Simonis Tini 1587]). The live interpretation is by the Musical Chapel of the Duomo of Milan at the concert held in the Milan Auditorium on 3 March 2023.
Happy Easter from the bottom of my heart.
