He lives, may He live in us!

Christ is risen to go before us:
our Brother to the Father,
our Priest to the Altar.
our Saviour to the world!

Christ is risen!
Christ is risen!
Christ is risen!

Resurrected Christ  ~  Peter Paul Rubens

"Poor death, where is your sting?

Poor hell, where is your triumph?

Christ steps out of the tomb and you are

reduced to nothing!

Christ rises and the angels are wild with delight.

Christ rises and life is set free.

Christ rises and graves are emptied of dead.

Oh yes, for He broke from the tomb like a flower,

a beautiful fruit: the first fruit of those already gone.

All glory be His, all success and power . . .

forever and ever."

 

St John Chrysostom
Excerpt from Easter homily 387 AD

 

 

"Let us celebrate the feast not with the old yeast,

that of corruption and wickedness,

but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." 

I Corinthians 5:8

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! 

By His great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

and to an inheritance which is . . . kept in Heaven for you." 1 Pet 1:3

"In celebrating the sacrifice of the Lamb,

we are united to the heavenly 'liturgy' and

become part of that great multitude which cries out:

'Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon

the throne, and to the Lamb!' (Rev 7:10).

The Eucharist is truly a glimpse

of heaven appearing on earth.

It is a glorious ray of the heavenly Jerusalem

which pierces the clouds of our history

and lights up our journey." 

Pope John Paul II

Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 19

He lives, may He live in us!