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SUMMARY:The Easter Liturgy
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DESCRIPTION:From earliest times Christians have gathered through the night
  of Easter to recall the story of God’s saving work\, from creation thro
 ugh to the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. However\, the 
 Easter Liturgy is not merely a presentation of God’s work. It is meant t
 o be a real experience of new life for the worshipper\, a passing from dar
 kness to light which offers hope to all the faithful. It is therefore impo
 rtant that the preparation is prayerful and thorough.\n\nThe Easter Vigil 
 marks the end of the emptiness of Holy Saturday\, and leads into the celeb
 ration of Christ’s resurrection. The singing of the Exsultet\, the ancie
 nt hymn of triumph and rejoicing\, links this night of our Christian redem
 ption to the Passover night of Israel’s redemption out of Egypt. Christi
 an baptism is a participation in the death and resurrection of Christ\, a 
 dying to sin in order to be reborn in him\, and the Easter Vigil was from 
 early Christian times a preferred occasion for baptism. It is fittingly a 
 time when those who are already Christians may repeat with renewed commitm
 ent the promises of their own baptism\, and strengthen their sense of inco
 rporation into the royal and priestly ministry of the whole people of God.
  The Easter Gospel is proclaimed with all the joy and splendour that the c
 hurch can find.
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