The Resurrection of the Lord
John 20:7-8
When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
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After weeks of abstinence and fasting, my mother would buy 100 grams of lechon (roasted pork) for our Easter Sunday lunch. That would be the only day in a year that we would be eating lechon. She would explain that this is our way of celebrating the resurrection of the Lord.
Our Lord has offered more than a lechon on that first Paschal Triduum. He offered Himself, body and blood during the last supper, died on the cross on the first Good Friday and fulfilled His promise of eternal salvation on Easter Sunday.
Thus, the whole Christian world celebrates. It doesn’t matter whether we eat lechon, do easter egg hunts, eat chocolate bunnies.
Let us Rejoice! Christ died and has risen.
Let us offer our life in this truth for we are saved because of one man who followed that will of His Father. Lechon, anyone?
Let us pray +
Lord Jesus, the celebration of Your Resurrection over death is a celebration of life. Resurrection is a daily celebration over fear; man's greatest and most powerful enemy. Fear of tomorrow, fear of our yesterdays, fear of what shall become of our young our old our unborn.
You sacrificed Your life, leaving those who had been comfort, and follower; You left them behind, to conquer fear.
Almighty and ever-living Lord, you restored us to life by raising Christ from death. Strengthen us by this Easter sacrament. God our Savior, hear us, and through this holy mystery give us hope that the glory you have given Christ for he is Lord for ever and ever. Amen +
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
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