The 'Visible Symptoms' Remain to the End

 Father Daniel O’Leary

Jesus did not begin to save the world by transfiguring first the visible symptoms. Because the evil of injustice, war and greed still carves new marks in the face of the earth, we fear that Easter really is about the next life. 

We wonder whether the world is 'absolutely saved', as they say. But, as with sick and shallow institutions and churches, the resistant surface is usually the last to collapse. Easter faith is about believing in the Light while it is still dark. 

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