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Catechetical
ALLELUIA
An Easter Meditation
To the faithful of Hippo centuries ago, St. Augustine prescribed a sure recipe for on-going Easter joy: Let us sing ALLELUIA here on earth. . .so that we might one day sing it in heaven. Why? Because God is faithful! The Easter mysteries offer ample proof of that unchanging fact. THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH reminds us that:
A ll Jesus did, said and suffered had for its aim restoring fallen man to his original vocation. (#518) The saints never tired of pondering Christ's redeeming love, plumbing the depths of the mysterious truth that
L ike all men, Jesus experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of death. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the good news to the spirits imprisoned there. (#632) Thus, each time we acclaim our risen Savior as
L ord (that title) becomes adoration: MY LORD AND MY GOD. It takes on a connotation of love and affection that remains proper the Christian tradition: IT IS THE LORD! (#448)
E verything in Jesus' life was a sign of mystery from the swaddling cloths of his birth to the vinegar of his Passion and the shroud of his Resurrection. (#515) Drawn more and more into the heart of these saving mysteries, our
L ives are swept up by Christ into the heart of divine life, so that (we) might live "no longer for ourselves but for him who for our sake died and was raised." (#655)
U nder the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, we join the apostles in proclaiming that Christ's resurrection -- and the risen Christ himself -- is the principle and source of our future resurrection. (#655)
I n his Passover, it was precisely out of the depths of death that Christ made life spring forth. (#631) Renewing ourselves in the love of the Risen One, may our lives proclaim this Easter and always that
A ll Christ's riches "are for every individual and are everybody's property." (#51) Therefore, all who have been saved have been made sharers in the redemption. (#634)
ALLELUIA!
