Now it is Easter

Well, Easter has come as well and now I am back in Brisbane for the first time in nearly two years. I spent the Easter weekend in Bangkok and then came home. Eastertime in Bangkok was special and well worth being there for it. Why do I say that? One reason was that at mass on Easter Sunday, I saw a good friend who was in town from New York. I was just so happy to see her. Another reason that a difficult person in my life in Bangkok was just so lovely that day. Bothe spoke to me of easter. In my homily, I named the key word for easter as being "transformation". As an Easter people, we are always in whatever shape or situation we find ourselves open to being transformed more into the good people we are called to be, more into the ministers of the gospel we are called to be, and that transformation is always possible. Then I read Dr Prawase's social critique of a Thai society caught up in its own dysfunctions. His number one criticism of Thai society is that community is too weak. That is a challenge of easter - to become the people we are called to be; to become the community we are called to be. Herein lies the power of easter - transformed into someone/s greater, more powerful for the greater good, for the kingdom.