This is my Easter Sunday Gospel Reflection for the MiLE website:
Resurrection involves transformation. The good news of Easter Day is that Jesus is alive with a transformed body. That transformation means that Jesus’ project to transform the world, the kingdom of God, has been launched and will happen. Accordingly, his disciples are transformed from fearful beings to those who will go to the whole world with this transformative good news.
Work is also about transformation. Christian Schumacher has argued that all work involves a death and resurrection transformation. This is most obvious in physical processes such as the iron and steel industry where rock deposits are transformed into steel ingots but it is also true of services such as health or education where the transformations made involve wellness and wisdom. The key is to identify the central transformation and structure the work around that change.
Truly transformative work not only mirrors Christ’s death and resurrection but becomes part of the new creation that Christ’s resurrection begins.
Prayer: May your resurrection transform not only our lives but also our ways of working that we might share with you in seeing a transformed world – the kingdom of God – come. Amen.
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