Today’s Gospel recalls the transition of Jesus Christ between death and resurrection. After a great meditated, accepted, inevitable trial, which led him to undergo torture, Christ resisted because he had a clear goal: to obtain the forgiveness of the sins of humanity burdened with excesses and abuses far from religiousness.

How similar this biblical chapter is to what Ecuadorian society is going through in its current dark moments! A community victim of the abuse of those who dominated the streets, public places, and everyday life. Where one kills without much remorse, in the background of inefficient power that is mostly punctuated by corruption, which seems to contaminate everything. An entire city is undergoing a strange ordeal that has forced many into lockdown as if in a pandemic to prevent death, robbery or extortion from coming before the fearless gaze of those who should act.

But unlike the bitter cup that Christ accepted, which lasted between the Friday of the crucifixion and death, the Sabbath of glory and the Sunday of the Resurrection, the cup that touched the Ecuadorian people is as bitter as it is uncertain, it is not a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins, nor does it have an expiration date . Evil and its cultists everywhere seem to be the product of ineffective control actions, almost no crisis management, poor communication management and fueled perceptions that there is no direction or future, which have managed to sow in the collective imagination hordes of trolls and influencers undoubtedly funded by those who wish gather the spoils from the chaos that will rise them back to power.

The question that comes out in the form of a desperate cry is: when does the moment of resurrection come?

“A great silence envelops the land; great silence and great solitude, because the king sleeps”, is heard from the pulpits on Holy Saturday, as it is today. “Fear, get yourself together and prepare for the celebration of the resurrection and ascension to heaven,” the priests warn their parishioners. The devil is on the loose, beware, grandmothers warned in days like today, thinking that Jesus’ death on the cross could mean that until the day of his resurrection, all kinds of things will happen.

That great silence that they proclaim in the churches is a comparison of what society feels now, which feels orphaned because of the protection that state institutions should provide, especially those that, like justice, should be a guarantee of safety and respect for citizens. the constitutional authority to move freely throughout the national territory.

Three days, according to the Holy Scriptures, were enough for the son of God to change the history of the Christian world with his sacrifice on the cross and the resurrection that returned him to heaven. For hundreds, thousands of days, Ecuadorian society has already suffered uncertainty and anxiety, seeing daily killers and each time with greater cruelty; cinema-style heists and mobs that are at home collecting debts by kidnapping, maiming or dismembering or planting explosives on humble people to terrorize everyone. The question that comes out in the form of a desperate cry is: when does the moment of resurrection come? (OR)