EASTER — TRIUMPHANT RESURRECTION OF JESUS OVER DEATH
MOST IMPORTANT SEASON OF THE YEAR!
Liturgically speaking, the Feast of The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the biggest Feast of the year. Why? Because, even if Jesus had suffered and died on The Cross for us, He would not have been God if He had not conquered death by rising from the dead. He created death, therefore, He could not be held by death. He had to show us what would be the fruit of our following Him in obeying His Commandments, suffering, and dying with Him: rising to Eternal Life with Him. As St. Paul said:
“[11] For whether I, or they, so we preach, and so you have believed. [12] Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead? [13] But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen again. [14] And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.”
“[20] But now Christ is risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep: [21] For by a man came death, and by a man the resurrection of the dead. [22] And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. [23] But every one in his own order: the first fruits Christ, then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming. [24] Afterwards the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have brought to nought all principality, and power, and virtue. [25] For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet. [26] And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet.”
(taken from www.drbo.org: St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians)
God made each one of us for Himself, not for anybody else. He made each one of us to be a Saint — to live forever with Him in Heaven. It will be totally our fault if we do not live, as we should: obeying His Commandments and discerning and fulfilling His Specific Plan for each one of us, thus, living and dying holily with Him, so that we can be happy with Him forever in Heaven. Jesus opened Heaven for us by paying the price for Adam’s sin of pride and disobedience. We need to obey God in all things and, thus, receive the reward for our obedience by going to Heaven, and Jesus has shown The Way.
As with the Feast of ChristMass, the Feast of Easter actually lasts 7 days, so, we are allowed to eat meat on Easter Friday, as if it were Easter Sunday. Then, the Easter Season lasts 40 days before the Pentecostal Novena, so, let’s try to pray the Easter Sequence each day and, if we do not already pray the “Angelus” each day, consecrating each 6 hours of waking hours to God, then, let’s start this wonderful, powerful habit by praying the “Regina Coeli” each day. We Catholics honor The Most Blessed Virgin Mary so much, because if She had not said, Yes,” to bear GOD’S Son, He probably wouldst not have come to earth, He wouldst not have redeemed us, and we would not have any reason to exist on earth… Also, The Most Blessed Virgin Mother Mary participated the most possible in our LORD JESUS’ Most Sorrowful Passion, according to The Mystical City of GOD, by Ven. Mary of Agreda,