Sunday, April 20, 2014

HAPPY EASTER: A BLESSED RESURRECTION IN THE RISEN LORD


Host of Heaven exult in celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
Angels minister to the Resurrected Christ, loudly proclaiming His triumph over death.
Peoples everywhere throughout the world  rejoice and are glad: Jesus has broken the bo bonds of death.
Peoples everywhere raise mighty voices, singing Alleluia the darkness of sin has been banished!
Yesterday and today, Christ the Beginning the  End, the Alpha and the Omega. All time belongs to him and all the ages To him be glory and power through every age and forever.Amen.

 

Every age is protected and guarded by the glorious wounds of the Lord, washed clean in His blood poured out on the cross.
All time belongs to Christ, our Risen Savior, who shines over all, glorifies all in His  destruction of sin upon the cross.
Standing in the awesome glory of the holy light that dispels the darkness, we sing alleluia the King of kings, Christ the Lord.
Though unworthy, we are, through the mercy of God, redeemed and reconciled with the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit.
Even now, throughout the world, Christian believers are set apart from worldly vices and from the gloom of sin by the power of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.  That resurrected power transforms our sin into grace, our darkness into light.
Rise up with Christ, the Morning Star that never sets. May the light of your baptism and mine never be undimmed  as we walk through this Valley of tears hand in hand with the Lord.

Source: The opening liturgy of the Easter Vigil.

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