Having said this, he cried out
in a loud voice:
“Lazarus, come out!”.
At the heart of this passage resounds
the unheard-of and definitive revelation:
“I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies,
will live.” Words that are not merely
consolation, but the eschatological
foundation of our existence:
in a time marked by disenchantment,
this is an announcement capable
of breaking the gray monotony of habit,
the fog of spiritual apathy,
the paralysis of fear.
“I am the life”: not an idea, not
an abstract principle, but a living Person,
flesh and blood, love freely given.
A Person who opens the tomb
in which we have shut away our dreams,
our good intentions, our charisms,
left to rot from fear or distrust.
A life that is always radical newness,
creative energy.
© Monache benedettine del monastero di Sant’Anna a Bastia Umbra,
Schizzi di Vangelo, Paoline 2025
