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Easter Sunday
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Every year at the Easter Vigil a new spark is struck
from the flint to light a new candle. New holy water is blessed, and new
hosts are consecrated. We are beginning all over again, making all
things new. Our Lord's death and resurrection were the turning points in
the history of creation: it made all things new.
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The resurrection is a pledge that one day every tomb,
like the tomb of Christ, will be empty. That life will not die with
death. Easter is not a one-man show. Jesus is alive. That is what brings
us to church at Easter.
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But He did not burst from the tomb for His own sake,
to prove something like Houdini. His whole life was unique. He preached a
twin message everyone could understand: Love God above all else; love
your sister and brother as much as you love yourself.
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He made enemies of the powerful because He put
compassion above traditions, love above law, and people above things. He
claimed a relationship with the Father so intimate that the scandalized
took up stones to cast at Him for blasphemy. He proved His divinity by
not only dying for us, but also rising for us. He came alive to give us
life, and to share in God's own life. Not only in the hereafter, but
also in the here and now. That is important: it is not enough to have
life, even God's life, you must live it, feel it, and open up to it.
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Jesus made it quite plain when He said, "I come that you
might have life and have it abundantly." Some of us are not concerned
with the questions of is there life after death, because they have not
realized that there is life after birth. St. Paul tells us we are a new
creation. We are radically different from what we would have been if
Christ had not come, had not carried His cross to Calvary. Because of
Christ, our life should be different.
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Begin again! Make anew your relationship with
Christ, and your life will also begin again, and you will be the new
light in darkness. And so we wish you a happy and blessed Easter. St.
Paul reminds us, "For us, life is Christ, and He has risen. The tomb is
empty!" We praise You, O God, and we bless You. Because, by Your holy
cross, You have redeemed the world.
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Yours in Christ,
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Fr. Robert Warren, S.A.
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