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Feast, Easter
 


Our lives are fulfilled in God alone, because only he is the Living One!

 
Homily
16 June 2013

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


Let us pray for one another so that, by sharing in the victory of Christ, we may open our doors to the weak and poor. Then we will be able to experience and share to the full the joy of Easter.

 
Message for Lent, 2017

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


Christ is risen! And we have the possibility of opening our hearts and receiving his gift of hope. Let us open our hearts to hope and go forth. May the memory of his works and his words be the bright star which directs our steps in the ways of faith towards that Easter that will have no end.

 
Homily
26 March 2016

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


“Christ is risen!”. And, in Him, through Baptism, we too are risen. We have passed from death to life, from the slavery of sin to the freedom of love. Behold the Good News that we are called to take to others and to every place, inspired by the Holy Spirit.

 
Regina Coeli
6 April 2015

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


The Church throughout the world echoes the angel’s message to the women: “Do not be afraid! I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised… Come, see the place where he lay” ( Mt 28:5-6).
This is the culmination of the Gospel, it is the Good News par excellence: Jesus, who was crucified, is risen! This event is the basis of our faith and our hope.

 
Urbi et Orbi' Message
Easter
20 April 2014

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


The women who were Jesus’ disciples teach us all... They kept watch that (Holy Saturday) night, together with Mary. And she, the Virgin Mother, helped them not to lose faith and hope. As a result, they did not remain prisoners of fear and sadness, but at the first light of dawn they went out carrying their ointments, their hearts anointed with love. They went forth and found the tomb open. And they went in. They had kept watch, they went forth and they entered into the Mystery. May we learn from them to keep watch with God and with Mary our Mother, so that we too may enter into the Mystery which leads from death to life.

 
Homily, Easter Vigil
Vatican Basilica
4th April 2015

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


We cannot live Easter without entering into the mystery. It is not something intellectual, something we only know or read about… It is more, much more!
“To enter into the mystery” means the ability to wonder, to contemplate; the ability to listen to the silence and to hear the tiny whisper amid great silence by which God speaks to us (cf 1 Kgs 19:12).

 
Homily, Easter Vigil
Vatican Basilica
4th April 2015

 
 
 
Feast, Easter
 


A mighty angel says to the women: “Do not be afraid!” (Mt 28:5) and orders them to go and tell the disciples: “He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee” (v. 7).  The women quickly depart and on the way Jesus himself meets them and says: “Do not fear; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me” (v. 10). “Do not be afraid”, “do not fear”:  these are words that encourage us to open our hearts to receive the message.

 
Homily
Easter Vigil
Vatican Basilica
19 April 2014

 

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