{"id":2987,"date":"2020-05-29T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:42:46","slug":"are-we-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2020\/05\/29\/are-we-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we in Limbo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sheila Kun RN, BSN, MS, CPN, FCCP<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the COVID-19 lockdown, my young friend Sarah, an intelligent, Master-prepared, fervent catholic, wrote this thought-provoking piece on Limbo for her Journal Club. I asked Sarah\u2019s permission to share with you. I hope you will savor this very amazing piece of reflection on Limbo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here in my apartment, my life has been put on hold. So, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about Limbo. There is a concept in the Christian world of \u201cLimbo\u201d – the place where the\u00a0un-shriven dead await their final judgment. Salvation or Damnation? That is the question.<\/p>\n

Lately, limbo has been deprived of its religious connotations and is now taken to mean simply\u00a0\u201cwaiting.\u201d But, waiting for what? That is a poignant question that I dare ask in this time of\u00a0pandemic pandemonium. A pandemonium made all the worse by its subtlety. I and the rest of\u00a0the world are waiting: for the world to end, for the economy to crash, to lose our jobs, our\u00a0income, whether we will lose our jobs or incomes. When will our loved ones get sick, when will\u00a0they die? When will I die? Waiting for oblivion, waiting for Apocalypse, waiting for Pestilence, for\u00a0Chaos? Waiting for love and salvation? Waiting for the return of Christ the King and His Loving\u00a0Mercy!<\/p>\n

Speaking of Christ the King on this, Good Friday, He, too, waited. In the Gospels, three days\u00a0pass between Jesus\u2019s death and resurrection. What was this like for Christ? Some legends say\u00a0that he freed the souls in Hell, others say Limbo. But, really, what was it like for Christ? Did he\u00a0ever once wake up in the tomb on Day 1 or Day 2? Did he look around him, achy and groggy,\u00a0and think to himself, \u201cWhat the bleep just happened?\u201d \u201cWhy am I still waiting to return to my\u00a0Father?\u201d We all know that Christ being God himself, he knew the answer to these questions, in his\u00a0divinity. But the human side of Jesus maybe didn\u2019t or didn\u2019t want to know. Just like people\u00a0today. He waited, more or less patiently, for His final destiny. Just like the rest of us.\u00a0The Bible says \u201cIn the beginning, there was the Word.\u201d And God rested on the 7th day and the\u00a0world waited for his Word to \u201cbecome flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, waiting depends on a future and some\u00a0say that the very concept of the future is a Western construct. Many indigenous peoples believe\u00a0that time is cyclical, or that time itself is timeless. But, to wait, is to anticipate the future, a future\u00a0that may never be. But, still we wait. Still, we live in Limbo, suspended in time that exists only in\u00a0our minds and fail to realize that now is all we have.<\/p>\n

Time is merely the endless present. And we\u00a0wait patiently, expectantly, for a future that already is, was and always will be. We wait because\u00a0there is little else we can do in the face of such awesome uncertainty. This is what we call God\u00a0and patience can be our salvation, if we seek it. This is Ecclesiastes\u2019 message when he says\u00a0that \u201cAll is vanity except for the Lord.\u201d And this is what Jesus means, when he says, \u201cthe things\u00a0of this world pass away but the Word of the Lord never passes away.\u201d We await the eternal\u00a0Word and because the Word is eternal, we\u2019ll be waiting for a long time yet. Because the Word\u00a0waits with us!<\/p>\n

I want to thank Sarah for sharing her insight during this COVID-19 moment. Her writing infused new hope and a sense of optimism for our future. Having youngsters like Sarah, we know our next generation will live the Gospel and carry the Words of the Lord. <\/em><\/p>\n

Your homework assignment from the Care Ministry this week: <\/strong>reflect on an event that you were waiting for impatiently, but knowing that Christ is with you, your impatience melted away.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We love to hear from you: kunlouis@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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