1/ We are in a crisis: pandemic, racist violence, political uncertainty, cultural clashes, economic downturn. All this is exposing fragility of our lives and calls our way of life as individuals and society into question. The truth is we must be confronted with fragility and…

2/…death to seek a more promising life. That’s Jesus: the healthy do not need – and do not seek -- a doctor. We are sick and yet, faced with death, most of us crave not a new life, but the life we’ve always known, the very life whose cracks the crisis is exposing.

3/ Like Israelites in Egypt, are groaning under the impersonal Pharaoh of this protracted crisis. Let’s not limit our hopes to an improved version of Egypt. Let’s have a courage to set ourselves on a journey to the promised land, let’s embrace the Good News Jesus proclaimed.