Buried at last!

Thank goodness the pope is now buried and gone. All this hype over his ‘death’ is really too much and the fact that people (especially the Catholics) are crying over his death is ridiculous!

We are an ‘Alleluia people’ wrote St. Augustine, where is our Alleluia now? We are to rejoice in the death of a faithful because that is what Christ taught us, death is not the end but a beginning. I agree that we should feel sad because the person is no longer with us but I think for our sadness to over shadow our joy in being an Easter people is really too much, this was really shown in the actions of Catholics the world over. And to think we are still in the Easter season!

Now that he has be buried, we can go back to living our lives again. Has anything changed? No. Has the world become a worse or better place? No. Is God still working in this world? YES! I think what my priest said in his homily on the day the pope died (3rd April 2005) that our faith is built on Christ, our Risen Lord and nothing else, not his birth or his death but by the simple fact that he rose from the dead. It was a real slap in the face for all who were grieving for the pope (a man), provided if the people who heard it could understand the greater meaning of what he said. Christ in the foundation of our faith, nothing else, not the pope, not the Vatican and definitely no the religious. And here we are moaning for the death of a man like there is no tomorrow.