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Ubi Caritas et Amor, Deus Ibi Est

4/18/2022

 
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In the cycle of the liturgical year, the Sacred Triduum stands out in a class all its own: Holy Thursday as a day of unparalleled liturgical catharsis, Good Friday as one in which contrition cannot but pour out as tears; all of which reaches its pinnacle on Easter, the Solemnity of Solemnities. Holy Week catches us up into the drama of our redemption and God’s infinite love for Man—and it is this very theme which is the inescapable motif of the entire affair: love.

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Living in the Resurrection

4/11/2021

 
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"But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus."
Romans 6: 8 - 11

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Octave Joy

4/20/2020

 
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Eugène Burnand: Peter and John Running to the Tomb
One of the gifts of Holy Mother Church to her children is the gift of the Octave. For high liturgical feasts such as Christmas and Easter, the feast is so splendid, so marvelous that one day is not sufficient to celebrate! Even more particular to the Octave is the fact that each day is celebrated as equally to the feast. During the Easter Octave, for example, every day is celebrated as the day of Christ's Resurrection. ​

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Exultet!

4/25/2019

 
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"Spiritual elevation to union with God through the power of Christ is what this holy night accomplishes...we must believe firmly that now, at Easter, God enters the world and our souls, to consecrate and sanctify." Fr. Pius Parsch

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Easter Sunday Slideshow

4/21/2019

 
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O God, who through thine only-begotten Son didst on this day overcome death and open unto us the gates of everlasting life: prosper with thine aid the desires which thou didst anticipate with thine inspiration. Through the same Lord. Amen. - ​Collect

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God's Fool

4/28/2018

 
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace...

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Alleluia!

4/1/2018

 
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Jesus greets His Mother after the Resurrection

Mary as Witness to Whole Pascal Mystery

After Jesus had been laid in the tomb, Mary “alone remains to keep alive the flame of faith, preparing to receive the joyful and astonishing announcement of the Resurrection” (Address at the General Audience, 3 April 1996). The expectation felt on Holy Saturday is 

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Stay with us, Lord!

4/16/2017

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The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene By Alexander Ivanov
Mane nobiscum, Domine!
Stay with us, Lord! (cf. Lk
 24:29)

With these words, the disciples on the road to Emmaus invited the mysterious Wayfarer to stay with them, as the sun was setting on that first day of the week when the incredible had occurred.

According to his promise, Christ had risen; but they did not yet know this. Nevertheless, the words spoken by the Wayfarer along the road made their hearts burn within them. So they said to him: "Stay with us".

Seated around the supper table, they recognized him in the "breaking of bread" - and suddenly he vanished. There remained in front of them the broken bread, There echoed in their hearts the gentle sound of his words.
Dear brothers and sisters, the Word and the Bread of the Eucharist, the mystery and the gift of Easter, remain down the centuries as a constant memorial of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ! On this Easter Day, together with all Christians throughout the world, we too repeat those words:

Jesus, crucified and risen, stay with us! Stay with us, faithful friend and sure support for humanity on its journey through history!
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Living Word of the Father, give hope and trust to all who are searching for the true meaning of their lives. Bread of eternal life, nourish those who hunger for truth, freedom, justice and peace.

Stay with us, Living Word of the Father,
and teach us words and deeds of peace: peace for our world consecrated by your blood and drenched in the blood of so many innocent victims: peace for the countries of the Middle East and Africa, where so much blood continues to be shed; peace for all of humanity, still threatened by fratricidal wars.
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Stay with us, 
Bread of eternal life,
broken and distributed to those at table: give also to us the strength to show generous solidarity towards the multitudes who are even today suffering and dying from poverty and hunger, decimated by fatal epidemics or devastated by immense natural disasters. By the power of your Resurrection, may they too become sharers in new life.

We, the men and women of the third millennium, we too need you, Risen Lord! Stay with us now, and until the end of time. Grant that the material progress of peoples may never obscure the spiritual values which are the soul of their civilization. Sustain us, we pray, on our journey. In you do we believe, in you do we hope, for you alone have the words of eternal life (cf. Jn 6:68).

Mane nobiscum, Domine! Alleluia! 
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URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE OF SAINT POPE JOHN PAUL II 
Easter Sunday, 27 March 2005

SAINT JOHN PAUL II, PRAY FOR US!
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Alleluia! Resurrexit Sicut Dixit! Alleluia!

4/16/2017

 
"Resurrexi..."
"I arose and am still with you..."
​Alleluia!

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We were privileged to attend the Easter Vigil
​at the Cathedral with our Bishop. After the Vigil, Father Keyes brought our Risen Lord back to our Chapel. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!


Our dear friend, the Alleluia, has been reposing in silence since the beginning of Septuagesima, so after our Lord returned to our chapel, dug up the Alleluia.
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Benediction following the Easter Sunday Mass

"And the Word became Flesh"

4/4/2016

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Transferred from March 25 because of Good Friday, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation today with a sung Mass and the renewal of our Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary.
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Preparing for Adoration
St. Josemaria Escriva tells us:
"The beginning of the way, at the end of which you  will find yourself completely carried away by love of Jesus, is a trusting love of Mary.... If you seek Mary, you will find Jesus. And you will learn a bit more about what is in the heart of a God who humbles himself, discarding all manifestations of his power and majesty to take the form of a servant."
                         From his homily "To Jesus through Mary" given in 1957
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