I AM NOT AN AI.
The Easter of Jesus does not erase His wounds: it transfigures them. This truth, so simple yet so profound, becomes a key to interpreting our lives and our Lenten journey. The wounds of the Risen Christ are not a marginal detail: they are the Gospel engraved upon His body, the proof that love does not eliminate history, but redeems it. And from this very point, a reflection is born that can touch the heart.
The Wounds of the Risen Lord: A Memory that Saves
When Jesus appears to the disciples after the resurrection, He does not present Himself with a "perfect" body, as if the cross were an accident to be forgotten. He shows His hands and His side. The wounds no longer bleed, yet they remain open, luminous, and glorious. They are the sign that love does not pretend, does not remove, and does not erase. Love assumes, crosses through, and transfigures. Christ’s wounds declare that nothing of our history is lost when it is handed over to God.
Easter Does Not Eliminate Pain: It Fulfills It
Many imagine faith as a way to no longer feel the weight of life. But Easter is not an anesthetic. It is a transformation. Jesus does not say: “Nothing happened.” He says: “Everything happened, and I have transformed it into life.” The resurrection is not the negation of Good Friday: it is its fulfillment. The wounds remain, but they no longer cause pain. They remain, but they no longer define the end. They remain, but they become sources of mercy.
Our Wounds in the Light of His
If the Risen Lord carries His wounds, then we too can carry ours without shame. We can stop hiding what has hurt us, stop denying what has broken us, and stop fearing what has scarred us. Jesus does not ask us to erase our history, but to surrender it. Our wounds, in His hands, become open doors to grace. They become places where He enters to heal, not to judge.
Mercy is Not "Buonismo" (Superficial Niceness)
There is a kind of Christianity that does not save: the one that avoids the truth, that does not ask for conversion, that does not touch the heart. It is a façade of Christianity, made of superficial kindness, which does not know the depth of mercy. True mercy is born from the wounds of Christ, not from a smile that covers everything. It is strong, concrete, demanding, and liberating. It does not stroke the sin: it strokes the sinner to lift them back up.
A Lent that Frees from Fear
Lent becomes authentic when we allow Jesus to look at our wounds. His gaze does not condemn: it sets us free. It does not awaken guilt: it awakens life. It does not instill fear: it liberates us from fear. Only those who have never experienced mercy use religion to make others feel guilty. Those who have met Jesus know that His voice never crushes: it calls, it lifts, and it restores dignity.
A Lent that Makes You Fall in Love
When we let the Risen Lord show us His wounds and touch ours, then Lent becomes an encounter. It becomes a return. It becomes falling in love with Jesus all over again. He does not ask us for perfection: He asks for trust. He does not ask for empty sacrifices: He asks for the heart. He does not ask us to be strong: He asks us to let ourselves be loved. And when we allow ourselves to be loved, purification becomes joy, fasting becomes freedom, prayer becomes breath, and Easter becomes life.
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