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Editorial > Editorial Archive  Buenos Aires, Sunday, April 1st, 2007
The CrossThis is the Holy Week, the great Week of our Faith, the one which leads us directly to Jesus' Resurrection. It is the week in which Jesus Himself, God made Man, “will take up the Cross”, will give His life for all Men, in short for Man, and by His Resurrection on Easter He will return us hope. We all have our Cross, it is enough to look at our life and the lives of those around us: sickness, abandonment, slander... everything is a Cross, and although there is a “wide range of crosses”, they all are crosses. The Holy Week, the week in which our own Cross gets its true and deep meaning, the one given by Jesus Himself who “carried His Cross and gave up His life, but not everything ends on Good Friday, which just was the necessary and advisable step towards Resurrection, from which everything gets a new meaning.This is the Holy Week, the great Week of our Faith, the one which leads us directly to Jesus' Resurrection. It is the week in which Jesus Himself, God made Man, “will take up the Cross”, will give His life for all Men, in short for Man, and by His Resurrection on Easter He will return us hope. But today's reflection is related to this Holy Week and its most fundamental aspect, which is the Cross. Jesus invites us to “take up” the Cross and to follow Him, but not as a mere mimicry but as a means for us to reach Glory ourselves. We all have our Cross, it is enough to look at our life and the lives of those around us: sickness, abandonment, slander... everything is a Cross, and although there is a “wide range of crosses”, they all are crosses. The Cross in itself is painful and many times it is humiliating, and there's no doubt many times we are tempted to “throw it away”, to leave it at a side, but although we may try to, we realize we can't get rid of it. We can carry the Cross in our shoulders or we can drag it along, but we must carry it, many times it just is “built in”. It also is true that many times when we “drag it along” it gets “heavier and even unbearable”. Every human being has his crosses, although they can be called by a different name. We believers are invited to “carry” our cross with a Christian meaning, which is to say as Christ carried it, and although it may seem almost meaningless, we are even called to “love our cross”. We know that something we “love” is not as heavy, even the Cross itself, just as Christ took up His Cross, but He did so because of love, and from love. It's odd, but it's for real: “if we love our Cross it's not that heavy, but if we reject it, it grows heavier”. It's true, the cross is very heavy, and many times it makes us reject it. But the cross we take up “from God or with God” is the one we can carry, it is difficult, but not impossible to carry. When we look at it and take it up from God, the Cross which befits us is "tailor made" to our means and when we carry it with love as Jesus did, it will get lighter and we will realize that we will feel it, but that we are able to carry it. The Holy Week, the week in which our own Cross gets its true and deep meaning, the one given by Jesus Himself who “carried His Cross and gave up His life, but not everything ends on Good Friday, which just was the necessary and advisable step towards Resurrection, from which everything gets a new meaning.
Father Oscar Pezzarini together with Fr. Leonardo Abregú makes us reflect on Saturdays from 8 to 12 AM (GMT-03:00)with "VENTANA A LA VIDA", the Don Orione radio program he conducts on FM PROVIDENCIA, 90.3 MHz together with some residents of the Claypole Cottolengo (Raúl Romero, María Laura Andrada, Alberto Zoroch, Américo Torres), with the production of Roberto Beluzzo and Ignacio Cavalli as technical operator. You can also listen to FM PROVIDENCIA by clicking here.
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