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EASTER SUNDAY
	April 21, 2019

HAPPY EASTER!

¡FELIZ PASCUA!

Happy Easter! Or as most other languages prefer: Blessed Pasch—Passover! Pasqua, Pascua, Páscoa, Pâques! Israel’s Passover through the Red Sea to the Promised Land! Jesus’ Passover through the Cross to resurrection! Our catechumens’ Passover last night, and ours once upon a time, through Baptism’s waters to our family’s Eucharist! Welcome, everybody! As someone once said of the Catholic Church, “Here comes everybody!” So in this Jubilee of Mercy, we make our own Saint John Chrysostom’s Easter welcome from fourteen hundred years ago: “Let everyone enjoy this radiant feast! You who fasted from Lent’s beginning, and you who didn’t fast at all, rejoice! The table’s richly set! Come, take from it, everybody, no worries, no embarrassment! All of you, taste the banquet of faith! Enjoy the feast of forgiveness! Let no one grieve for having sinned again and again: pardon has risen from the tomb!”

Happy Easter! Blessed Pasch! Welcome, everybody!
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

¡Feliz Pascua! La Pascua de Israel a través del Mar Rojo a la Tierra Prometida! La Pascua de Jesús a través de la cruz a la resurrección. La Pascua de nuestros catecúmenos anoche, y la nuestra una vez más, a través de las aguas de nuestro bautizo a nuestra familia eucarística. ¡Bienvenidos todos! Como alguien dijo una vez acerca de la Iglesia católica: “¡aquí vienen todos!” Así que en este jubileo de misericordia, hacemos nuestra propia Pascua de san Juan Crisóstomo desde hace cuatrocientos años “¡Permitan que todos se alegren en esta fiesta radiante! Ustedes que ayunaron desde el inicio de la Cuaresma y ustedes que no ayunaran para nada, ¡alégrense! ¡La mesa está generosamente arreglada! Vengan, sírvanse, todos, no se preocupen, ¡no se avergüencen! ¡Todos ustedes, prueben el banquete de la fe! ¡Disfruten la fiesta del perdón! ¡No lloren por haber pecado una y otra vez: el perdón se levanta del sepulcro!”

¡Feliz Pascua! ¡Bienvenidos todos!
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

“When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory." — Colossians 3:4

“Cuando se manifieste Cristo, vida de ustedes, entonces también ustedes se manifestarán gloriosos, juntamente con él." — Colosenses 3:4

PASTORS' MESSAGE

Dear Parishioners and Friends,

HAPPY EASTER!

Today we celebrate Christ’s triumph over death! We began our celebration last night with the Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil or the Great Vigil of Easter, the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. It is during this service that the water of the baptismal font is solemnly blessed and any catechumens and candidates for full communion are initiated into the church, by baptism and/or confirmation. After the celebration of the sacraments of initiation, the congregation renews their baptismal vows and receive the sprinkling of baptismal water.

“The rubrics of the Missale Romanum remind us that this ‘mother of all vigils’ is the ‘greatest and most noble of all solemnities and it is to be unique in every single Church’ (Missale Romanum, ‘Rubrics for the Easter Vigil’ (EV), no.2). On this holy night, the Church keeps watch, celebrating the resurrection of Christ in the sacraments and awaiting his return in glory. It is the turning point of the Triduum, the Passover of the new covenant, which marks Christ's passage from death to life. Therefore, the Easter Vigil does not correspond to the usual Saturday evening Mass and its character is unique in the cycle of the liturgical year. The Vigil, by its very nature, "ought to take place at night" (EV, no. 3). It is not begun before nightfall and should end before daybreak on Easter Sunday. “ (USCCB, The Roman Missal and the Easter Vigil).

The Easter Vigil liturgy is the most beautiful liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church. It consists of four parts: Service of Light, Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of Baptism, and Liturgy of the Eucharist. All Catholics should try to attend this beautiful service.

“Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on His arrival….”
(Luke 12:35-37)

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The “SALUBONG” (in English means meeting or welcoming) is one of the tra- ditions that has been well-preserved by the Filipinos. The Salubong is an Easter Sunday pre-dawn ritual or ceremony that reenacts the Risen Christ’s meeting with His mother. The tradition requires a child dressed as an angel (in the Phil- ippines, the angel would be lowered by ropes from a high platform) to lift the mourning veil of the grieving Mother Mary (the statue of Mother Mary). The two images of the risen Christ and of the Mother Mary will come from different sides of the street. The participants in the procession are segregated by gender. The men and boys follow the image of Jesus Christ, while the women and girls follow the image of Mary. The two groups will meet in the churchyard and the procession of the images of Christ and His mother ends up inside the church with the two groups join together for the joyous Easter Mass celebration.