Easter Triduum / The Exultet; The Temple is raised

Easter Triduum  /  The Exultet; The Temple is raised

Easter Vigil; Fire, Light. Baptism

A proclamation of hope, praise for resurrection, God’s promise of complete forgiveness through the Sacrifice of Christ.   Through baptism we find new life which is what water signifies.  The Paschal Candle stands as the presence of the Risen Christ who now dwells within our tabernacles, and within our human bodies.

O truly blessed Night, sings the Exultet of the Easter Vigil, which alone deserved to know the time and the hour when Christ rose from the realm of the dead!  But no one was an eyewitness to Christ’s Resurrection and no evangelist describes ir.  No one can say how it came about physically.  Still less was its innermost essence, his passing over to another life, perceptible to the senses.  Although the Resurrection was an historical event that could be verified by the sign of the empty tomb and the reality of the apostles’ encounters with the risen Christ, still it remains at the very heart of the mystery of faith as something that transcends and surpasses history.  This is why the risen Christ does not reveal himself to the world, but to his disciples, “to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witness to the people.”  (CCC 647). 

Reading the Prologue to the Gospel of John places all of the Truths that he is the Light of the world which gives us Life and is our path to a Sacramental life through Christ Jesus.  (Jn 1: 1 - 18).    

This is the Night where new believers will become immersed in Baptismal Waters, accept the Light of Fire, and walk in the Light of Christ who is their Savior.  

From the nine months Christ rested in the womb of Mary, his Mother, and was born at his Nativity, and grew to be Crucified, he rose after destroying death and the sin he absorbed from 

those he came for.   This is our faith, this is our victory because God cares for us, for all eternity. 

Ralph B. Hathaway