Archbishop Jason Gordon said belief in the resurrection of Christ should enable people to look past hurdles in their lives and have faith that Trinidad and Tobago will get better. He said people who received the risen Christ should not be people who are negative and bitter.
Speaking to a packed congregation at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Independence Square, Port of Spain, on Easter Sunday, Gordon said there was no place for "sour-faced" Christians, as said by Pope Francis, and reminded the congregation whatever they were facing, they know it was not the ending because of the resurrection of Christ.
“We know in the end all things will be well, and if you find all things are not well right now, you know it is not yet the end.
[caption id="attachment_1150726" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Archbishop Jason Gordon preaches his Easter Sunday sermon to a packed congregation at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Port of Spain, on April 20.[/caption]
“Keep going forward in the faith that in the end all things will be well because God has raised from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, and if he has raised Christ from the dead, there is nothing in our life that God cannot do, nothing we cannot face with his grace and with the grace of the resurrection mound.
“There is nothing we can’t transform if we understand who he is and what he has done. The resurrection must inform our attitude, it must inform how we speak, it must inform how we treat one another, it must inform how we relate as a family, it must inform how we love."
Gordon said TT was a beautiful country and people would know this if they looked at it through the eyes of the resurrection of Christ.
“We have been looking at our land through the eyes of despair, the eyes of what is wrong, the eyes of blame and shame, the eyes of race and class, the eyes of pain and hurt, the eyes of victimhood, and insofar as we’re looking through those eyes, we are not looking through the eyes of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
“If we look through those eyes, then yes there was pain and the pain was deep and profound, but God has raised us up to be a people who are resilient in the face of difficulty. Many things were terrible about our history but God has been present with us as a people in ways we cannot explain.”
He said often God opened up a way for people but they went back to despair, the emptiness of their lives, blame and shame and other negative things.
[caption id="attachment_1150724" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Archbishop Jason Gordon preaches his Easter Sunday sermon at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on April 20.[/caption]
“If we believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, then we have no place with negativity, we have no place with speaking badly and ill about people, we have no place in the disrespect we continue to mete out to each other, we have no place for racism, because if we believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, then every creed and race will find an equal place in this beautiful twin-island
