Jesus of Nazareth

How can we let you just be yourself,
without diminishing you, without manipulating you?
How, believing in you, can we not proclaim you
to be Equal, more important, better than Christianism?…
Jesus of Nazareth, son and brother,
Living in God and yet bread in our hand,
trail and companion for the day,
profound liberator of our lives,
you come, by the sea, at dawn,
embers and wounds glowing.

(Pedro Casaldáliga, 1928-2020, critical bishop, prophet, defender of all the last peoples)
Easter, 2022

Translated from Spanish by Mertxe de Renobales Scheifler