Then God said, “Let there be” O love, O charity beyond all telling!

Greetings on this the Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter
Readings: (various)

Summary

Then God said, “Let there be… And so it happened. God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good.

Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth (Ps 104:30).
You are my inheritance, O Lord (Ps 16:1).
Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory (Ex 15:1b).
I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me (Ps 30:2a).
You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation (Isa 12:3).
Lord, you have the words of everlasting life (Jn 6:68c).
Like a deer that longs for running streams, my soul longs for you, my God (Ps 42:2).

Reflection

Brothers and sisters:
Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into his death?
We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death,
so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father,
we too might live in newness of life.
(Rm 6:3-4).

Personal Reflection

Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.” (Mt 28:10).

The human family struggles even in this hour.

• Who am I?
• Why am I?
• What is my final end?

We men and women of faith say:

• God wills you live.
• God loves your life.
• God wishes to be with us in a holy union forever.

Throughout these difficult days we can recognize the human weakness that brings such ills. In the great mystery, each year we sing it although we barely try to actually understand it nor apply its message. The necessary sin of Adam.

This is the night
when Christ broke the prison-bars of death
and rose victorious from the underworld.

Our birth would have been no gain,
had we not been redeemed.
O wonder of your humble care for us!
O love, O charity beyond all telling,
to ransom a slave you gave away your Son!

O truly necessary sin of Adam,
destroyed completely by the Death of Christ!

O happy fault
that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer!

O truly blessed night,
worthy alone to know the time and hour
when Christ rose from the underworld!

Happy Easter Everyone!

He is Risen.

Sacred Readings full text: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040426.cfm

Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry