HAPPINESS IN HOPE
Today the Church celebrates Easter. With this celebration we conclude a six-week long retreat. We have reflected upon our own shortcomings in the light of the passion and death of our Lord. During the season of Lent we did not recite the Gloria and the Alleluia, because Christ her bridegroom was going through his passion and death. But today they are re-instated solemnly. Means of fasting, prayer and almsgiving were practised in order to restore our relationships with ourselves, with God and with others. Now begins a seven-week long celebration which will culminate in another important solemnity, namely, the Pentecost. If Lent represented our life in this world, Eastertide will represent our life after death where we shall rejoice in the presence of God forever. Let us ask ourselves whether we have grasped this mystery of Jesus’ resurrection in its fullness.
Liturgy for Easter Sunday.
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