Where, Death, is your victory? (1 Cor. 15:55)

In these times of secular thought, when absorbed by the “here” and “now” prescribed to us by all the followers of the “mindfulness”, we do not even want to know about death, even if it appears to us in every corner of the house. Paul excites the Corinthians with intense words: “When this corruptible is clothed with incorruption, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the word that is written will be fulfilled: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your sting?” Soon we will begin Lent: we are now in Carnival…, but the liturgy invites us to take seriously the offer that Jesus made to us; he has conquered death! We, who count ourselves among his followers, let us keep hope firm, let us remain standing, as one who looks to the future.