Christos Aneste! Alethos Aneste!

(Repost from last Easter) - CHRIST IS RISEN!!



Christ Jesus our Lord, our Savior, our Redeemer, has Risen from the dead - just as he promised!!!!

The darkness and silence of the tomb could not hold him.  Darkness cannot hold us.
The darkness and despair of Holy Saturday was not the end of the story.  It is not our story.
The loneliness and abandonment his followers felt was unfounded.  We are not alone.

For the tomb is empty - Jesus is no longer there - He has risen from the dead. Alleluia!! Alleluia!!

Easter Sunday has finally come. Lent and Holy Tridium are over - Praise be to God. Our Savior is ALIVE. Light has returned.

We waited patiently, though anxiously, in the dark of the night. But light and joy break with the morning. Jesus has defeated sin, suffering, and Satan. Evil is vanquished. Jesus has won.

We sent our problems, our difficulties, our worries, our sorrow, our despair, and our sin to the cross on Friday. Jesus took them on himself as he died. They went with him to the tomb on Saturday. But today he has left them there. We are free. We can have joy. We can set all our hopes and dreams on the risen Christ.

We can now have new life. May we all now live in the joy of the Resurrection. Sunday has indeed come for all of us. A true Sunday.  The darkness of Holy Saturday and Lent is behind us.  The new day is here.  May we believe it, and experience it, radically today and every day. Praise be to God. Thanks be to God. Praise be to God. He is risen…He is risen indeed, Alleluia…

JESUS HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD!! ALLELUIA!! ALLELUIA!!