The end of Lent is signaled by the Easter Vigil. It is the beginning of the great festival of Easter which, at fifty days, surpasses the forty days of preparation we embarked upon on Ash Wednesday. What a tragedy that this majestic and compelling liturgy, which is the climax of the Church's year, will not be enacted in churches this year due to the corona virus emergency! Nevertheless, how many parishioners have never attended a Vigil? Those of you who have Sunday Missals or can access it online, I encourage to read all the readings that the Church gives us for this celebration. Enter into the mystery of salvation and open yourselves to the glory which outshines the angels who appeared the the shepherds at Christmas. Let us all be mindful of the amazing gift of baptism and how the promise of the resurrection fills us with joy and enables us o overcome suffering in all of its forms: "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his." (Rom 6: 3-5)
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