“The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.
The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began.
God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.
He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve.
The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: 'My Lord be with you all.' Christ answered him: 'And with your spirit.' He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying:
'Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began.
God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.
He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve.
The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: 'My Lord be with you all.' Christ answered him: 'And with your spirit.' He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying:
'Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
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there are few things on this side of heaven more beautiful and sublime than the Latin Rite’s Exsultet for the Easter Vigil
https://youtu.be/NEs4d3cCX9s
https://youtu.be/NEs4d3cCX9s
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Easter Proclamation - Exsultet in Latin (English Translation) | Paschal Proclamation Traditional
Salve Maria!
Here is a beautiful video of the Easter Proclamation, also known as the "Exsultet", with Lyrics in English and in Latin. This version has been rendered by Deacons of the Heralds of the Gospel in 3 voices. The Paschal Proclamation is a lengthy…
Here is a beautiful video of the Easter Proclamation, also known as the "Exsultet", with Lyrics in English and in Latin. This version has been rendered by Deacons of the Heralds of the Gospel in 3 voices. The Paschal Proclamation is a lengthy…
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Mark points out very explicitly that the women approached the empty tomb at the time of the “sun being now risen”, as if to mystically signify that in Christ alone the distinction between symbol and reality completely and utterly breaks down
the timeless, and cross-cultural universal symbolism inherent in the cosmic icon of the rising sun dispelling the darkness of night becomes definitively manifest, concrete, and fully reified once and for all in the one, true Eternal Light of Light dispelling the darkness of sin and death solely and exclusively in Christ’s historical and bodily Resurrection from the dead
the timeless, and cross-cultural universal symbolism inherent in the cosmic icon of the rising sun dispelling the darkness of night becomes definitively manifest, concrete, and fully reified once and for all in the one, true Eternal Light of Light dispelling the darkness of sin and death solely and exclusively in Christ’s historical and bodily Resurrection from the dead
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in light of classical theism’s understanding of God as the pure, unconditioned Act of Existence itself, not even the word “is” can be considered theologically neutral
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To say multiple things “are” such and such, this implies a metaphysical category of existence which transcends particular modes of participation in existence
And if “existence” is something that has to be received and participated in, then there must be some reality in Whom existence is not received or partaken of in any respect, ie, the pure, unconditioned act of Existence itself upon Whom everything else must depend for its participated mode of existence
Were this not the case, existence would be purely derivative along an infinite chain of beings that do not have existence in virtue of what they are, and therefore existence could’t “get” to anything in the first place, and nothing would exist
And if “existence” is something that has to be received and participated in, then there must be some reality in Whom existence is not received or partaken of in any respect, ie, the pure, unconditioned act of Existence itself upon Whom everything else must depend for its participated mode of existence
Were this not the case, existence would be purely derivative along an infinite chain of beings that do not have existence in virtue of what they are, and therefore existence could’t “get” to anything in the first place, and nothing would exist
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the existence of the average kino casino viewer presents a greater emotional challenge in reconciling God’s infinite goodness with evil than war, famine or plague
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Robert Grosseteste’s beautiful exposition on the Papacy, given to Pope Innocent IV on 13 May, 1250
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“name one moral action done by a believer that an atheist could not also do”
uhhh how about worshipping God lol, literally commandment #1
uhhh how about worshipping God lol, literally commandment #1
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no other religious doctrine on earth communicates the fundamental compatibility of God, humanity, and the cosmos so richly and uncompromisingly as the hypostatic union of Christ’s human and divine natures
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Christ: don’t go out of your way to tell everyone you’re fasting (Matt 6:16)
some of you niggas on Easter Friday: *loudly and proudly broadcasts to everyone how rigidly you adhere to non-binding, pre-Vatican II fasting and abstinence rules*
some of you niggas on Easter Friday: *loudly and proudly broadcasts to everyone how rigidly you adhere to non-binding, pre-Vatican II fasting and abstinence rules*
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it actually only takes one singular act of perfect love to create and redeem the entire Cosmos out of nothing, but this power is unique to God, because only God can love perfectly out of pure gratuity
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at the end of the day Nick Fuentes is a builder whose achievements are concrete, nameable, and verifiably consequential, which simply can’t be said for ANY of the ankle-biting losers who hate on him for a living
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the Catholic Church is the only Christian denomination that simultaneously believes marriage is a holy Sacrament instituted by Christ Himself and that perpetual virginity conduces toward a higher state of perfection for those who called to it
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