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Walking the Easter Way by Living Our Lives in the Risen Lord Now
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
In the Liturgical Year of the Catholic Church we are in the “Octave” of Easter. The word means eight. This “Feasts of Feasts” as the early Christians called the Resurrection, stretches out for eight days. It was on the first day of the week that Jesus was raised from the dead and began the new…
Happy Easter! The Tomb is Empty! Life reigns! Death dies, Alleluia!
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
Death was dealt a fatal blow at the wounded but glorified hands of the Warrior of love. Nothing can separate us from that Love incarnated in the Crucified, Risen Son of the True and Living God. Alleluia! The tomb is empty. Death could not contain the One who poured Himself out in Love. The light…
One Reason we Call it Good Friday
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
Years ago, I served as Deacon at the solemn “Celebration of the Lords Passion” at Christ the King parish. This is the liturgy of Good Friday in the catholic Church. I had just carried the Cross into the waiting assembly chanting three times: “This is the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Savior…
The Sacred Triduum, the Three Days and the New Age of the Resurrection
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
“Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its brilliance. Gradually, on either side of this source, the year is transfigured by the liturgy” (Catechism of the Catholic Church) The Easter Triduum begins with the Vigil of Holy Thursday. It marks…
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