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Ro­man Catholic arch­bish­op, Ja­son Gor­don, has chal­lenged cit­i­zens to live clos­er to the res­ur­rec­tion light. His state­ment came as the head of the Catholic Church in this coun­try de­liv­ered his East­er homi­ly yes­ter­day at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion in down­town Port-of-Spain.

Gor­don stat­ed be­fore a packed con­gre­ga­tion be­fore him, “We live in a beau­ti­ful coun­try, and in this beau­ti­ful coun­try we know that there is so much beau­ty, so much won­der­ful gift and grace that we have. We know that in this beau­ti­ful coun­try that there is so many ded­i­cat­ed peo­ple who do things that are ex­tra­or­di­nary on an or­di­nary day. But we al­so know in this beau­ti­ful coun­try we live, we live clos­er to graves and the tombs than we live to the res­ur­rec­tion light?”\

Gor­don, who com­plet­ed the East­er Trid­dum at the Cathe­dral ques­tioned, “How of­ten do we re­peat the neg­a­tiv­i­ty? How of­ten do we pass on the neg­a­tiv­i­ty? How of­ten do we com­plain and quar­rel and de­spair over the coun­try? How of­ten do we add to all the neg­a­tiv­i­ty that is go­ing around? Pass­ing it along on Face­book and What­sApp. How of­ten do we do that, as op­posed to say­ing he is not in the tomb any­more, he is alive, and I will not be a crea­ture of neg­a­tiv­i­ty any­more.”