Alleluia ~ Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace is risen ~
Alleluia The Lord is risen Indeed Alleluia! Heaven and Earth rejoice in Your
resurrection
To all parishioners,
visitors, friends 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.
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!”
"Mary Magdalene
stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over
into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the
head and one at the feet where the Body of Jesus had been. And they
said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They
have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." When she
had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not
know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said
to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and
said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," which means Teacher.
Jesus said
to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the
Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my
Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary went and
announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and then
reported what he had told her." (Jn
20:11-18)
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"The Resurrection of Jesus is the
crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived
as the central truth by the first Christian community; handed on as
fundamental by tradition; established by the documents of the New
Testament and preached as an essential part of the Paschal Mystery
along with the Cross." (Catechism of the Catholic Church
638)
Do not seek the Living among the dead,
He is risen and He precedes you in Galilee!< “Christ has
been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have
fallen asleep. For just as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all
be brought to life.” (1 Co 15;
20-22)
Easter Prayer:
Loving God,
by this Easter mystery You touch our lives with the healing power
of your love. You have given us the freedom to be children of God.
May we who now celebrate your gift find joy in it for ever in
heaven. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever.
Amen.
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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! Alleluia ~ He is risen that we may rise with Him ~
Alleluia
Khrystos Voskres! (Christ is Risen!) ~ Voistyno
Voskres! (He is Truly Risen!) (Ukrainian)
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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at
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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"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
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and
if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is
moderately important. ~ C. S. Lewis
Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. ~ St.
Augustine of Hippo
"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
1 TREE + 3 NAILS = 4 GIVEN
~ anon
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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.
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