Focolare Movement

We can feel the nails

Apr 3, 2015

Holy Saturday, in anticipation of the event which will change history. A reflection by Klaus Hemmerle.

26“Oh, there’s a light with nails on it!

So exclaims a child in front of the Paschal candle.

We can feel the nails.

But can we see the Light?

And what about us … do we give out light?

We are nailed

to ourselves and to others;

to our time and our responsibilities.

The Holy One has allowed himself to be nailed to our cross.

And it was from there that he come down.

He was nailed right up until he died.

In this way he became light for everyone;

that light which penetrates closed doors.

He is risen

and shows the signs of the nails.

Light which was nailed.

We feel the nails.

But can we see the Light? And what about us … do we give light?

(From a pastoral letter on the occasion of Easter 1984)

 

Klaus Hemmerle, “La luce dentro le cose”, Città Nuova, Rome 1998, p. 109.

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