Easter Sunday 2013

My beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord, the last night we heard one of the most beautiful songs we have in the liturgy of the Catholic Church: the Exsultet (in Latin Praeconium Paschale). This morning of Easter Sunday I would like to stop on some parts read parts of this text and read it again with eyes full of light thanks to the resurrection of Christ, our Lord. We must read the texts of the liturgy with joy, with gratitude, asking the Holy Spirit his help to save these texts in our hearts, so we can repeat these texts, and those ideas become the background music of our soul. That exactly: the background music of our soul. ■ Fr Agustin, pastor.

Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing choirs of angels! Exult, all creation around God's throne! Jesus Christ, our King is risen! Sound the trumpet of salvation!

Rejoice, O earth, in shining splendor, radiant in the brightness of your King! Christ has conquered! Glory fills you! Darkness vanishes forever!

Rejoice, O Mother Church! Exult in glory! The risen Savior shines upon you! Let this place resound with joy, echoing the mighty song of all God's people!

For Christ has ransomed us with his blood, and paid for us the price of Adam's sin to our eternal Father!

This is night, when Christians everywhere, washed clean of sin and freed from all defilement, are restored to grace and grow together in holiness.

This is the night, when Jesus broke the chains of death and rose triumphant from the grave.

What good would life have been to us, had Christ not come as our Redeemer?

Father, how wonderful your care for us! How boundless your merciful love! To ransom a slave you gave away your Son.

Accept this Easter candle, a flame divided but undimmed, a pillar of fire that glows to the honor of God.

Let it mingle with the lights of heaven and continue bravely burning to dispel the darkness of this night!

May the Morning Star which never sets find this flame still burning: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind, your Son, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. R. Amen.