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May the Morning Star which never sets
find this flame still burning:
Christ, that Morning Star,
who came back from the dead,
and shed his peaceful light on all mankind,
your Son, who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Amen.
- from the Exultet.
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We wish you all the joy of the Easter season. Christ is risen - Alleluia
From Aelred of Rievaulx's second Sermon on Easter (Sermon 12.25):
...ut faciat opus misericordiae suae, suscepit fermentum mortalitatis
nostrae, quod sine dubio erat alienum a puritate divinitatis suae. Venit
tandem tempus, quando voluit auferre a seipso istud fermentum, adhibuit
ignem, id est passionem. In passione sua periit totum illud fermentum,
omnis corruptio, omnis mortalitas; et surrexit hodie de terra panis
azymus, panis purus.
So that he might accomplish his work of mercy, he accepted the leaven of
our mortality, which was, without question, alien to the purity of his
divinity. When the time came at last that he wished to remove this leaven
from himself, he used fire, that is to say, his passion. In his
passion, all of that leaven was destroyed, all corruption, all mortality.
And today he rose from the earth, unleavened bread, pure bread.
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