An Easter Sunday Thought
After "liturgical dying" during Lent, the Church springs gloriously to back to life today. The older Tridentine rite captures this much better than the Novus Ordo. The last two weeks of Lent, statues are covered in purple cloth. During the Triduum, after Holy Thursday all holy water is removed; once the bells are rung during the Gloria, they are replaced by wooden "clappers." But even the Novus Ordo tries to capture some of the solemnity of this "dying."
Then Easter! And all springs suddenly to life. Christ is Risen! Indeed in the Byzantine rite and the Orthodox Church, people don't say "Happy Easter," they proclaim: "Christos voskress": Christ is Risen!
And so we celebrate, some of us with our families gathered, for this greatest of all feast days, this most glorious day - in fact this most glorious week. Don't forget that every day this week is a first class feast, each day another Easter. Don't head back to work as if it's just another Monday. It will be Easter Monday; the same for each day thereafter this week. Just as you tried to incorporate Lent into your work day in some fashion, so let the glory, the celebration of Easter be with you all week.
What possible greater joy could there be than to know you are saved, miserable sinner that you are, by a loving God, by His having suffered and died that you may live in eternal happiness. Please don't forget this.
And to all of you this day and every day this holy Easter week:
Then Easter! And all springs suddenly to life. Christ is Risen! Indeed in the Byzantine rite and the Orthodox Church, people don't say "Happy Easter," they proclaim: "Christos voskress": Christ is Risen!
And so we celebrate, some of us with our families gathered, for this greatest of all feast days, this most glorious day - in fact this most glorious week. Don't forget that every day this week is a first class feast, each day another Easter. Don't head back to work as if it's just another Monday. It will be Easter Monday; the same for each day thereafter this week. Just as you tried to incorporate Lent into your work day in some fashion, so let the glory, the celebration of Easter be with you all week.
What possible greater joy could there be than to know you are saved, miserable sinner that you are, by a loving God, by His having suffered and died that you may live in eternal happiness. Please don't forget this.
And to all of you this day and every day this holy Easter week:
HAPPY EASTER!
CHRISTOS VOSKRESS!
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