Ed Pontaoe
20 Mar 2008

 

 

Well, we are bombarded with phrases like meekness, which to some jerko equated it with strength.

The taking of Pacquiao by such foolishly inclined observation that kneeling before the fight against Marquez showing meekness as a tool of success, is the most obdurate and insensible perception since Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

Did Pacquiao win? No, not even kneeling for the world to see showing that his God is involved in the fight. Split decision showed the prejudice of that official who gave Pacquiao a point over Marquez… though Marquez threw more punches than Pacquiao.

Was the power of the sign of the cross made Pacquiao more powerful than Marquez, which we all knew the Mexicans are more religiously observant than Filipinos?

Which it comes to this Holy Week? What’s holy about this week? Was it because those were the days when Jesus was forced to walk to his crucifixion?

The story of Jesus on this day finally came to an end. Convicted of resistance to lawful authority, his hands spiked to the cross Jesus submitted his fate to all he could to the Romans. No resistance. Meek like a lamb. None the fury he showed when he thrown out the gamblers from the temple.

On his last breath of life, he repeated a verse of the 22nd Psalm, a passage 1st century Jews were aware of: “My God, my God why have you forsaken me”. There was a final cry from him and then eerie silence.

Why have you forsaken me? In the confusion after his arrest, his followers scattered to the four winds scared of being implicated. They expected success if Jesus were as they believed, the Jewish Messiah, and then his victory would be the inauguration of the kingdom of God on earth.

An age supposedly will be marked by eradication of evil, the appropriation of justice and general resurrection of the dead. Wishful thinking.

On the Friday of this Passover, the moment the disciples were expecting the arrival of heaven on earth, Jesus, far from leading the forces of light to conquest . . . went MEEKLY with a heavy cross on his back . . . and died a criminal’s death.