Reflections: Easter : A Meditation
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article34676
- Author
- Bakare, Sebastian, 1940-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2007 Eastertide
- Author
- Bakare, Sebastian, 1940-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2007 Eastertide
- Issue
- 125
- Page
- 50
- Notes
- A meditation by the now retired bishop of Manicaland, Zimbabwe. A reflection on Mark chapter 15, verses 9-14, the persecution and suffering of Christ because he was not one of the powerful and threatened them with his love for the poor and powerless. "As we know the same violence that nailed Jesus to the cross in still prevalent in our world even today. It has many forms and can be physical as well as verbal .... HIV and AIDS is claiming lots of lives in Zimbabwe today. Should anyone be stoned to death because of helping the infected or affected, for instance the orphans ? Should anyone be harassed or beaten up because she/he has offered food to a hungry family ? Indeed we have heard voices saying time and again: Do not love or care for them because they are not 'one of us'. Whenever an act of violence is committed, the perpetrators appear to be victorious. But history has shown us again and again that perpetrators of violence always become the losers in the end. Jesus appeared to be a victim but today we celebrate his victory of the resurrection ...".
- Subjects
- Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Jesus Christ - Passion
- Easter - Church of the Province of Central Africa
- Social justice - Anglican Communion
- AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Church of the Province of Central Africa
- AIDS (Disease) - Zimbabwe
- Location
- General Synod Archives