For gods the great miracles. Then the decoration was rich. The sealed tomb, the rocking stone, the schoolgirls who are the first to be informed about her Resurrection.
But there is also the invisible “resurrection” for the rest of us who have only a human quality.
Believing in “Christ is risen”, do not deny faith in your own living resurrection. How many deaths during a lifetime… But also how many resurrections…
They hurt you a lot. Bitter is the cup you were poured with. The burden of injustice is heavy. Incidental or organized raid.
How many times —almost always— that we ourselves, marching against ourselves, become the authors of our living death. Dreams, hopes, ideals, tracks, what warmed us, excited us, fancied us, evaporate, defect, go into the fridge.
“THE STEP”, 30.4.1978, Historical Archive “THE STEP” & “THE NEWS”
There is no man who does not drag a dead man. But woe if there was not a resurrection for everyone. Deaths and resurrections make up our lives.
So many resurrections… The mental trauma that heals, the oblivion that covers what made you hurt, the faith that turns to dust and the dust is the seed of another faith that is hotter than the previous one.
There are also cases where the space of the extinguished faith remains empty. People without ideals and without faith. Even this: when they do not even believe in this lack in order to become its crusaders and raise the flag of denial with the passion of fanaticism. More dead than these dead. But the phenomenon is rare. The rule is the resurrection of the life that dies within us. One life died. Long live the resurrection of another life. Lernaia Hydra, where another head grows in the place of the head you cut off or are cut off. There are no Hercules capable of killing, along with death, and resurrection. And for the last human race there is a canvas to embroider on it some dream, a spark that illuminates the state of the dead. Dying alive, he finds ways to replenish life and weave new plans, which when they are extinguished, on their ruins will build the new state of dreams.
Woe to us if we die the first mental death. We would be dead from our infancy with the first disintegrating toy, with the first school accident, with the first teenage shipwreck on the island of Kythera.
“THE STEP”, 30.4.1978, Historical Archive “THE STEP” & “THE NEWS”
There is no life without some death, but also without resurrection. Of course, we are not gods to light candles for us at every resurrection, scramble eggs, exchange kisses, accompany resurrected tropes with the cannon of Lycabettus. Only we ourselves experience our “resurrection”. But the “resurrection” exists.
Science gives the patient the last word. And then, however, it leaves a skylight for the miracle that, even if she herself does not believe in it, you, the sick person, believe in it and wait for it.
The rule of life is the place of dreams, ideals, desires, ambitions that are extinguished to be taken by others with a different form and intensity than those they had that destroy inside the person during his life.
*Text of Paul Paleologus on Resurrection, on deaths and resurrections during our life. It was entitled “Resurrection and for us” and was published in the “Vima” magazine that was released on April 30, 1978, the day of Easter.
In the photo of this article, the Resurrection of Christ (1657) by the Cretan painter Elias Moskou. In the center of the scene, Christ is depicted triumphantly emerging from a box-shaped tomb in a cloud of glory, holding a crucifix and blessing with his right hand. Around the monument are depicted soldiers watching the event of the Resurrection in fear and angels glorifying.