Reflecting on the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, in his Easter message, reflects on his people’s road to Calvary over past two months.
“The greatest feast of Christianity comes during the saddest days in Myanmar history. For the last two months our people have walked through a real way of the Cross. They continue to be on mount Calvary. Hundreds have been killed. A blood bath has flown on our sacred land. Young and old, and even the children have been mercilessly killed. Dark days. Thousands are arrested and thrown into prisons. Thousands are on the run escaping arrests. Millions are starving,” the cardinal laments in his Easter message released March 31.
In a note of hope, the cardinal tells, “A wounded nation can find solace in Christ who underwent all that we are undergoing: He was tortured, he was abused, and he was killed on the Cross by arrogant powers. He felt the same sense of abandonment by God, felt by so many of our Youth.”
Recalling the Gospel story of women at Jesus tomb, the cardinal says, “Three women go to the grave to anoint Jesus body. They did not find him, but they found a young man. Yes. It reminds us of what is happening around us. Women and Youth of Myanmar. Empty the tombs. The message out of them is resurrection, a new world.”