I found it interesting during evening prayer this week with my Grove community members how one could draw parallels between Jesus' resurrection and World Youth Day. How you might ask?
A passage from our reflection spoke of Easter as an anti-climax.
Ash Wednesday had a sense of new beginnings. Lent was a project, a spiritual challenge.... Holy Week was a crescendo, Easter a culmination. Then nothing. Back to normal. 'Ordinary time'.
We too have been involved in a similar pattern - when we decided to travel to Sydney there was sense of new beginnings. The 'projects' of fundraising, retreats, and group meetings could also be a sense of spiritual challenges for our journey. The week of events in Sydney a crescendo, leading up to the final Papal mass - a culmination of all that we were journeying towards.
Then nothing. Back to N.Z. 'Ordinary time'.
But herein lies the beauty of the resurrection. Because for us, this was not the end.
Easter week should be everything - as it was with the first disciples. And it should be for us what it was for them - a beginning and not a conclusion; an awakening and not a tapering off.
This is the challenge for us young people - those travelling to Sydney and the many supporting us from home - the pilgrimage to WYD2008 should be our resurrection story. The build up to Sydney has long begun, and we await with great joy the weeks events in July - yet it will not end upon our return home. The legacy is here to remain through us.
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