Alleluia
~ Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace is risen ~ Alleluia
THE
LORD IS RISEN INDEED, ALLELUIA!
Heaven and Earth rejoice in Your resurrection
In
these holy days, the Risen Christ repeats His call to each one of us:
“Come and follow me! I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. I have overcome
death!”
To
follow Jesus Christ means to rise from the tomb of our sins and to allow the
beauty of life, given to us by Christ through His Resurrection, to come to shine
again in us. This Easter, let us then bury our sins once more… May
good, peace, truth and love, rise within us. May Christ rise within us!
To
all parishioners, visitors, friends, united Christian brothers, sisters and people of goodwill,
a Blessed and Happy Easter!
May you have: The gladness of Easter which is hope; The spirit
of Easter which is joy; The heart of Easter which is love.
Alleluia ~ He is risen that we may rise with Him ~ Alleluia
Khrystos Voskres! (Christ is Risen!) ~ Voistyno Voskres! (He is
Truly Risen!) (Ukrainian)
| May
this Easter morn bring new birth, new joy, and "knowing"
that God holds YOU, lovingly, gently, "in the palm of His
hand". May this day be the beginning of a life lived in Him,
through Him, for His glory. (Lisa Anton) |
May the Light of the resurrection accompany each one of
us.
May the sanctifying grace of the Risen Christ bring you and your
families peace, joy and holiness. |
Medjugorje
past message of April 25, 2006 "Dear children! Also today I call
you to have more trust in me and my Son. He has conquered by His death
and resurrection and, through me, calls you to be a part of His joy. You
do not see God, little children, but if you pray you will feel His
nearness. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. Thank
you for having responded to my call."
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Reflection:
On Easter Sunday, the Church is recollected in contemplation of the risen Christ. Thus she relives the primordial experience that lies at the basis of her existence. She feels imbued with the same wonder as Mary Magdalen and the other women who went to Christ's tomb on Easter morning and found it empty. That tomb became the womb of life. Whoever had condemned Jesus, deceived himself that he had buried his cause under an ice-cold tombstone. The disciples themselves gave into the feeling of irreparable failure. We understand their surprise, then, and even their distrust in the news of the empty tomb. But the Risen One did not delay in making himself seen and they yielded to reality. They saw and believed! Two thousand years later, we still sense the unspeakable emotion that overcame them when they heard the Master's greeting: "Peace be with you.'"....
...Christ's Resurrection is the strength, the secret of Christianity. It is not a question of mythology or of mere symbolism, but of a concrete event. It is confirmed by sure and convincing proofs. The acceptance of this truth, although the fruit of the Holy Spirit's grace, rests at the same time on a solid historical base. On the threshold of the third millennium, the new effort of evangelization can begin only from a renewed experience of this Mystery, accepted in faith and witnessed to in life....
Pope John Paul II
Prayer: God our Father, creator of all, today is the day of Easter joy. This is the morning on which the Lord appeared
to men who had begun to lose their hope and opened their eyes to what the scriptures foretold: that first he must die, and then he would rise and ascend into his Father's glorious presence. May the risen Lord breathe on our minds and open our eyes that we may know him in the breaking of bread, and follow him in his risen life. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Pope John Paul II's Easter message 2005 ~
"Jesus, Crucified and Risen, Stay With Us!"
Here
is a translation of the message John Paul II wrote for Easter 2005,
which was read on his behalf by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican
secretary of state, at the end of Easter Sunday Mass. The Mass was
celebrated in St. Peter's Square. [Original text: Italian - Translation
issued by the Holy See]
1. "Mane nobiscum, Domine!" Stay with us, Lord! (cf. Luke
24:29). With these words, the disciples on the road to Emmaus invited
the mysterious Wayfarer to stay with them, as the sun was setting on
that first day of the week when the incredible had occurred. According
to his promise, Christ had risen; but they did not yet know this.
Nevertheless, the words spoken by the Wayfarer along the road made their
hearts burn within them. So they said to him: "Stay with us."
Seated around the supper table, they recognized him in the
"breaking of bread" -- and suddenly he vanished. There
remained in front of them the broken bread. There echoed in their hearts
the gentle sound of his words.
2. Dear brothers and sisters, the Word and the Bread of the Eucharist,
the mystery and the gift of Easter, remain down the centuries as a
constant memorial of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ! On
this Easter Day, together with all Christians throughout the world, we
too repeat those words: Jesus, crucified and risen, stay with us! Stay
with us, faithful friend and sure support for humanity on its journey
through history! Living Word of the Father, give hope and trust to all
who are searching for the true meaning of their lives. Bread of eternal
life, nourish those who hunger for truth, freedom, justice and peace.
3. Stay with us, Living Word of the Father, and teach us words and deeds
of peace: peace for our world consecrated by your blood and drenched in
the blood of so many innocent victims: peace for the countries of the
Middle East and Africa, where so much blood continues to be shed; peace
for all of humanity, still threatened by fratricidal wars. Stay with us,
Bread of eternal life, broken and distributed to those at table: give
also to us the strength to show generous solidarity towards the
multitudes who are even today suffering and dying from poverty and
hunger, decimated by fatal epidemics or devastated by immense natural
disasters. By the power of your Resurrection, may they too become
sharers in new life.
4. We, the men and women of the third millennium, we too need you, Risen
Lord! Stay with us now, and until the end of time. Grant that the
material progress of peoples may never obscure the spiritual values
which are the soul of their civilization. Sustain us, we pray, on our
journey. In you do we believe, in you do we hope, for you alone have the
words of eternal life (cf. John 6:68). "Mane nobiscum, Domine!"
Alleluia!
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During
Easter Season, the Regina Caeli
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morning, noon, and evening.
Queen of Heaven rejoice, alleluia: For He whom you merited to bear,
alleluia, Has risen as He said, alleluia. Pray for us to God, alleluia.
V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. R.
Because the Lord is truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray: O God, who by the Resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ, granted joy to the whole world: grant we beseech Thee, that
through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may lay hold
of the joys of eternal life. Through the same Christ our Lord. R.
Amen.
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"The
joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world.
Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter
gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and
make the sacrifice." ~ Henry Knox Sherrill
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"Mass upon the Altar of the World" ~ A thought at Easter
It was during an expedition, in the stillness of the vast solitude
of the Ordos desert that one Easter Sunday Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
finished the mystical and philosophical poem, Mass upon the Altar of
the World. Alone before God, he prayed with lyrical fervour:
'Christ of
Glory, hidden power stirring in the heart of matter, glowing centre in
which the unnumbered strands of the manifold are knit together;
strength inexorable as the world and warm as life; you whose brow is
of snow, whose eyes are of fire, whose feet are more dazzling than
gold poured from the furnace; you whose hands hold captive the stars;
you, the first and the last, the living, the dead, the re-born; you
who gather up in your superabundant oneness every delight, every
taste, every energy, every phase of existence, to you my being cries
out with a longing as vast as the universe; for you indeed are my Lord
and my God.'
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"Easter
says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us
will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and
oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness." ~
Desmond Tutu
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