The President's Easter message

In the face of the anxiety our times call forth, nature inspires us with quiet confidence. The newly arrived Spring with its mild warmth reminds us that, even after the most ravaging and uncertain periods, after the storms, in nature as in life, life is reborn with a serene and inevitable strength.

As the Gospel of Matthew teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount, “Consider how the lilies of the field grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?” (Mt 6, 28–29). At Easter, we are called to trust, to rest in the certainty that there is a time to rest and overcome, and that blooming often happens quietly, yet with profound beauty.

May this be our guiding motto this Easter: to nurture hope, to lighten the weight of our worries, and to let the light of renewal lead us. Like nature, we too are made of new beginnings.

Wishing you a blessed and joyful Easter.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Isabel Capeloa Gil
                                                                                                                                                                                       President