Greet our neighbors: HAPPY EASTER!
CHRISTIANS celebrate Easter, it being a more significant biblical event than Christmas. Unlike Christmas that celebrates the birth of the Redeemer Jesus Christ to deliver on God’s promise, Easter is about the restoration of life, by the Redeemer who died on the cross and resurrected to save mankind from eternal damnation.
Easter presents an occasion to revive the positive spiritual gains as a people and as a family, to regain what we lost in the past, from moral values to whatever undertakings we had.
In celebrating Easter, we look back at what and how we have become, whether we lived as good neighbors or to be the despicable selfish and greedy; or, have become more knowledgeable of the teachings of our Redeemer Jesus Christ.
Unlike the celebration of New Year that’s marked traditionally with individual resolutions to adopt new ways and lose the old negative ways, celebrating Easter is to restore and strengthen our faith collectively, not only in the miracle of life brought by the death of our Redeemer on the cross but by keeping faith in each other as neighborly children of God.
Celebrating Easter, therefore, makes it incumbent on us to come together as good neighbors in a community, united in spiritual resolve as individuals whether we are fishermen, professionals, politicians, priests and nuns, farmers, homeless, soldiers and police, detainees, househelpers etc., to live our lives as our Redeemer taught us.
Amid the armed conflicts around the world, in our country and political conflicts, particularly, in Dagupan City, it behooves us to be stronger in our faith that the merciful love of our Redeemer will heal our differences.
Easter is also about hope. It’s about the need to pray for our families and neighbors that they may overcome their pains and sufferings and be deserving of our Redeemer’s undying love for all.
Let us greet our neighbors a “Happy Easter” today to reaffirm our faith in our Redeemer’s promise that we and our neighbors are saved, and we are loved!
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