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Let us reaffirm our faith in the victory of life, and pray that every “heavy stone” that stands before the door of our hearts, blocking our complete surrender to the Lord in faith, hope and love, may be shattered by the power of the light and life which shone forth from Jerusalem to all the world that first Easter morn. Christ is risen, alleluia!
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Homily
Josafat Valley, Jerusalem
12 May 2009
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If Jesus is risen, and is therefore alive, who will ever be able to separate us from him? Who will ever be able to deprive us of the love of him who has conquered hatred and overcome death?
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Homily
Easter Sunday
St Peter's Square
12 April 2009
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“Let there be light”, says God, “and there was light”: Jesus rises from the grave. Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies. The darkness of the previous days is driven away the moment Jesus rises from the grave and himself becomes God’s pure light. But this applies not only to him, not only to the darkness of those days. With the resurrection of Jesus, light itself is created anew. He draws all of us after him into the new light of the resurrection and he conquers all darkness. He is God’s new day, new for all of us.
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Easter Vigil
Holy Saturday
St Peter's Basilica
7 April 2012
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Jesus... says of his death: “I go away, and I will come to you.” It is by going away that he comes. His going ushers in a completely new and greater way of being present. By dying he enters into the love of the Father. His dying is an act of love. Love, however, is immortal. Therefore, his going away is transformed into a new coming, into a form of presence which reaches deeper and does not come to an end.
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Easter Vigil
Holy Saturday
22 March 2008
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Only the Risen Christ can bring us to complete union with God, to the place where our own powers are unable to bring us.
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Homily
Easter Vigil
St Peter's Basilica
7 April 2007
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“Destroy this temple”, Jesus said, “and in three days I will raise it up”. And St John recorded: “he spoke of the temple of his body” (Jn 2:20-21). With the Pasch of Jesus a new form of worship begins, the cult of love, and a new temple which is he himself, the Risen Christ, through whom every believer can worship God “in spirit and truth” (Jn 4:23).
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Angelus Address
St. Peter's Square
11 March 2012
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We too, like Mary Magdalene, Thomas, and the other Apostles, are called to be witnesses of Christ's death and Resurrection. We cannot keep this important news to ourselves. We must convey it to the whole world: "We have seen the Lord!" (Jn 20: 25).
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General Audience
St Peter's Square
11 April 2007
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The Easter icons of the Oriental Church show how Christ enters the world of the dead. He is clothed with light, for God is light. 'The night is bright as the day, the darkness is as light'. Entering the world of the dead, Jesus bears the stigmata, the signs of his passion: his wounds, his suffering, have become power: they are love that conquers death. He meets Adam and all the men and women waiting in the night of death…. he now clasps the hand of Adam, of every man and woman who awaits him, and brings them to the light.
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Homily
Easter Vigil
St Peter's Basilica
7 April 2007
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