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~Easter Sunday
“He is risen! He is not here!” Consider the glory of the blessed body of Jesus, when reunited to His soul, free from all infirmity, its wounds changed into so many sources of light. The glory of the divinity shines forth from the tomb, from which He issues as sovereign Lord of life and…
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Easter Sunday
We should reflect that the resurrection of Christ is an assured pledge of our own, and that our body, if we have laboured to sanctify it here below, will one day participate in the qualities of the glorified body of Jesus Christ. GROU. THIS is the Christian Pasch, or Passover. The Jewish Passover commemorated…
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~Holy Saturday
“Jesus laid in the tomb.” Joseph and Nicodemus, with loving hands, detach His precious body from the Cross. Whose arms so fit to receive it, as those which first bore Him in all His infantine loveliness in the stable of Bethlehem? Have you a new tomb ready for Him in your heart? Have you…
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Good Friday
“Bowing His head, He gave up the Ghost.” Having endured all that the cruelty of His enemies could invent, Jesus submits to death, the last of temporal evils; He died to repair the outraged honor of the divinity, and to redeem us at the price of His own life. You do not belong then…
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~Holy Thursday
“Jesus took bread, blessed, broke, and gave to His disciples.” While His enemies are plotting His death, Jesus invents a means of remaining with us to the end of ages, and becomes our food that He may live in our hearts even after His death. He does this at night as if to hide…
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Palm Sunday
Behold, our King marcheth before us, Who will fight for us. Let us follow Him manfully; let no one fear terrors; let us go forward together. Jesus will be with us. Imitation. The last Sunday in Lent is called Palm Sunday, from the ceremony of blessing palm branches and distributing them to the faithful.…