There is no darkness thick enough to hide or erase his blessing

by Mario Carrera

After his death, the Gospel says, "Pilate commanded that the body be released" to the relatives and women who had witnessed the agony.

Joseph of Arimathea was alerted and made his new tomb available. Death, which had engulfed that body, immediately made it sacred. In life that body had been tortured, flagellated, crucified, now that same body has the right to a dignified burial. 

They carry the lifeless body into a tomb.  Like the place of the crucifixion, also the tomb now outside the city walls and like this empty tomb owned by a faithful friend of Jesus, who lent it to him for a "temporary" location.  

That body, as darkness fell and the solemnity of rest began, was covered by a sheet and the perfumed aromas intended for burial were placed aside. Everything was ready for the new day: a day without sunset destined for eternity.

After the sin in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were expelled from the earthly paradise and God placed guardians of that land, which housed the "tree of life", destined to be the womb of a life destined to live without end, a wall of fire. 

The short-sightedness of men with the death of Jesus eliminated the Redeemer from his territory. Jesus, like a scapegoat, took on the sins of men; he paid the bill, so that with a powerful fire of love he opened a breach in the impenetrable wall of human meanness. Moreover! Jesus descended into hell to give to those who waited for his day, with the hope in their hearts, to cross that dividing line. 

We know that the first man to enter the Kingdom's territory was a repentant thief. Then the Spirit descended into hell, into the kingdom of darkness to free the children of light. Jesus came down to free from the world of darkness the seeds of blessing that every sin contains in its folds.

With the Resurrection of Jesus there is no darkness thick enough to hide or erase his blessing. There is no sin so great that it does not hide a fragment of divine goodness.  

Christ said that he does not want any of those whom he saved with his great love to be lost.

When Easter dawns, the human creature, having emerged from the hands of God, is ready to build a destiny of joy and communion on the rubble of sin.