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Easter Sunday Mass is held at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, featuring the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” message with Pope Francis’s appearance. We continue to pray for stable health and complete recovery of Pope Francis and for God’s Divine healing and intervention. Amen 🙏🏽

On this special day of Easter celebration, we thank God Almighty for the  gift of life and the special gift of His only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Praying for God’s grace, love, peace, and blessings upon us all as we celebrate the resurrection of our loving Savior, Jesus Christ.

“He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. ” Matthew 28:6

Easter Sunday is the greatest feast of the Christian calendar—the day we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. After the silence and sorrow of Holy Saturday, the tomb is found empty, and the light of the Risen Christ dawns upon the world. “He is not here; He has risen, just as He said” (Matthew 28:6). This solemnity marks the definitive victory of life over death, grace over sin, and hope over despair. The Resurrection is the cornerstone of our faith (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:14), confirming Jesus as the Son of God and opening the gates of eternal life to all who believe in Him. Easter Sunday is the culmination of the Paschal Triduum and the beginning of the Easter season—a 50-day celebration of joy, new life, and the power of God’s redeeming love. The liturgy is filled with alleluias, white vestments, and the glory of the Risen Lord. As we rejoice today, we are called not only to celebrate but to live as people of the Resurrection—renewed in baptismal grace, strengthened in faith, and sent forth to proclaim Christ’s triumph to the world.

This Jubilee Year of Hope 2025 proclaimed by Pope Francis invites us to reflect on the Gospel message of hope so that we can become people of hope in our world today. Easter is the great feast of hope. It is because of Easter that we are a hopeful people. There are many reasons for despair and discouragement in our world today. The problems of the world, our countries, our church, our own lives, can easily leave us disheartened. Yet the great message of that first Easter Sunday is that God is always working to bring new life out of great loss and death, God turned the awful tragedy of the killing of His own Son to the good of all humanity. In raising His Son from the dead, God was raising us all into a new hope. In raising His Son, God released a power for good into the world, a power of life, which gives us hope. We call this power the Holy Spirit. It is this Spirit of the risen Lord that makes us a hopeful people. As Saint Paul says in his letter to the Romans, ‘Hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us’.

PRAYER: Risen Lord, You have conquered sin and death and filled the world with hope and joy. As I celebrate Your Resurrection, awaken in me a new heart, a living faith, and a burning love. May I live this day and every day in the light of Your victory. Alleluia! Jesus, I trust in You. Amen.🙏🏽

Alleluia! He is Risen! Let us rejoice and be glad for the Lord is risen! May God’s grace and mercy be with us all during this Easter season and always 🙏🏽

EASTER SUNDAY | MASS OF THE DAY | HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS READ BY CARDINAL ANGELO COMASTRI | LIVE FROM THE VATICAN | APRIL 20, 2025 | https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2025/documents/20250420-omelia-pasqua.html

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