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Dear confreres and Nazarenes of Murcia:
When Easter comes to an end, I want to bring to your homes a message of optimism and a future, a breath of hope that comes to us from who today, Easter Sunday, has overcome death.
They have been hard, strange days, but also days of intense emotion.
That we have not been able to live this Passion Week on the streets, in the heat of the popular religiosity that emanates from our processional parades, does not mean that our Nazarene spirit was diluted.
On the contrary.
I think we have all been able to see how he has remained unscathed in the face of adversity, the one that has made us live this Christian commemoration from the depths of our hearts, more heartfelt than ever.
Hopefully this Easter so special has left us as a teaching to appreciate more and better the extraordinary dimension of the miracle that Jesus Christ did for us.
And it is that these days we have had the opportunity to reflect, calmly and carefully, about everything that He, who offered his own life for our salvation, gives us every day: health, family, friends, ..., and so many other truly important things that, perhaps, with the busy running of daily life we ​​neglect and escape its just and due consideration.
Many times we need, as human beings, that stop on the road, that wake-up call, to realize the wonders that the hand of God has put in our way, those authentic goodnesses with which certain day-to-day banalities seem to play as a blindfold.
Possibly, this situation that we have now had to go through has had the practical and positive consequence of being aware of all this.
Let us draw this profitable teaching from adversity.
Let's be constructive against the setback.
It is time to look forward.
Blues, browns, corinthians, magentas, coloraos, greens, purples, blacks, whites…, all of us, we have remembered these days our processions since the recollection and the most intimate brotherly sentiment.
But there is something that makes me proud.
And it is that, despite the paradox of confinement, we have made it more united than ever, without differences or individualism of any kind, bringing to light in adversity a commendable spirit of cohesion and solidarity among us that we must try to maintain in the future .
I deeply appreciate the extraordinary work that presidents, government boards and the wonderful legion of confreres that compose the different Murcian confraternities have done in this regard.
Your commitment is commendable.
In times of anxiety you have managed to keep the Nazarene essence alive in the minds of those who love Easter.
And I know, from a deep conviction, that you will continue doing so.
Because, actually, this doesn't end today.
Today precisely the following Holy Week begins, the one that lasts throughout the year in the soul and work of the brother.
Let's start working for it right away and let's all do it together, paddling together in the same direction that leads to its aggrandizement.
Let's also do it with joy.
Let us deposit in the Miracle of the Resurrection our hope in victory over this evil that still grips us today but that, very soon and thanks to divine intercession, will see its end.
Receive a brotherly hug.
José Ignacio Sánchez Ballesta
President of the Royal and Very Illustrious Superior Council of Brotherhoods of Murcia
Source: Real y Muy Ilustre Cabildo Superior de Cofradías
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