Happy Easter!
Christ is risen! He has risen indeed!
This night we celebrate the reality of the Lord’s Resurrection. We come to profess with the confidence of faith the great hope that He has come to triumph over the tomb of sin and death. So often our world is thrust down in an attitude that all has been left grim for us. In such manner we forget the virtue of hope that professes that something greater will always come.
Thus in the midst of this Vigil Mass we began in darkness, but from the illumination of the light of Christ this darkness of sin and death was thrust from our midst. Our readings proclaimed the reality of salvation history unto us. Through these words we reached the great culmination of all that has come before us in Christ who has come to die upon the cross in order that we may be redeemed and who has triumphed over that tomb through His Resurrection.
This night we have those in our midst who will profess the new life of Christ. They will enter into the waters of baptism and come to be claimed for Him. Through these living waters they will come to die to self in order to live for Christ. There are also those who will be received into the Church through a profession of faith. These individuals like us have already been baptized, but will now come to commune with us in Christ’s gift to the Church which is the Most Holy Eucharist.
This hope of the Lord’s Resurrection must always be professed with our lips. It is easy to have the seriousness of a relationship with Christ to fade away as time passes. This night we make a renewal of our baptismal promises for through them we remember that our life must come to be ordered towards Christ.
May we be sent forth from here with true vigor to live out the hope of all that we have proclaimed through he reality of the Lord’s Resurrection.
