Easter 2015: “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5)

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ARGENTINA

So many times we are perplexed, going back to the same places where we once had found reason and meaning in our lives (in our family, our loved ones, our jobs and an endless amount of places) that inevitably we feel the weight of absence, emptiness, and certainty that a person will not be the same person we once knew, the one we used to love.

The question the angels asked to the women in that first morning of resurrection is inevitably the hinge of time, of new meaning, of re-signifying from another context in which death cannot have the last word.

From this place of faith (the place the affirms that life always finds a way), full of nuances, mystery, values and senses, it’s good to remember what the WACC establishes as principles in the field of communication.

 

Communication is a spiritual exercise, from the moment in which it assumes the transcendence of the shared word which continues in the world beyond our strengths.

 

Communication builds and creates community from the instance in which those involved share the good news of a possible better world.

 

Communication increases participation because it invites others to announce a better world is possible and that the system which sacrifices the most vulnerable needs to me transformed.

 

Communication promotes freedom and demands responsibility from the moment in which it generates a new consciousness of the fact that death can be changed for resurrection and new life.

 

Communication celebrates cultural diversity, since the resurrection of love and full life has no boundaries of age, gender, race or language.

 

Communication inevitably builds connections from the moment in which it empowers that which is postponed and undervalued in our time, giving us a new framework to comprehend our own everyday reality, generating a new identity from the concepts of difference and otherness.

 

Communication affirms justice and defies injustice because it is an act of courage in the face of death’s silence which hides that which resurrection reveals. There is a true possibility of a world that is plural, equally balanced in its economical distribution, and, above all, hopeful that the best is yet to come once we stop normalising violence and all its forms.

 

It is possible, without a doubt, that new life, projects based on solidarity, and mutual support in pain can overcome darkness and give us the certainty of a word that enlightens, guides and marks new paths. Those are the paths we are heading towards with courage, devotion and hope!

Happy Easter of resurrection to everyone.

 

Leonardo D. Félix

(Director ALC news)

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