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EWTN News @EWTNews - Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday that he will lead a prayer vigil for peace on April 11 at St. Peter’s Basilica, using his first Easter Urbi et Orbi message to make a forceful appeal for an end to war and a renewed embrace of dialogue.
In a departure from the traditional Easter survey of major international flashpoints, Leo focused his message on the spiritual roots of peace, presenting Christ’s Resurrection as the answer to a world wounded by violence, hatred, and indifference.
“Easter is the victory of life over death, of light over darkness, of love over hatred,” the pope said. Yet it is also “a victory that came at a very high price”: Christ “had to die — and die on a cross — after suffering an unjust condemnation, being mocked and tortured, and shedding all his blood.”
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EWTN News @EWTNews - On Holy Saturday the Church is, as it were, at the Lord’s tomb, meditating on his passion and death, and on his descent into hell, and awaiting his resurrection with prayer and fasting.
Holy Saturday is the day of the Paschal Triduum when the Virgin Mary remains in prayer beside the tomb, accompanying the Church in its sorrow after the Passion and Death of Christ. But this is a hopeful waiting, as we also prepare to celebrate His Resurrection at the "Easter Vigil". Thank you for strengthening our faith, Most Holy Mother Mary!
How to live Holy Saturday?
Catholics begin the day with a spirit of mourning, maintaining an atmosphere of silence and meditation. These are hours of waiting in which Catholics remember that Jesus was placed in the tomb and later descended into hell.
But we do not wait alone, for Our Most Holy Mother accompanies us in the moment when God seems absent. Today, the Virgin Mary stands firm beside the tomb of her Son, strengthening the faith, trust, and hope of all her children.
Later, as night falls, Catholics attend the Easter Vigil, the most important and special Mass of the liturgical year, where we joyfully celebrate the victory of our God, the blessed night when Jesus rose from the dead and crowned His work of salvation.
🙏Prayer for today:
Lord, by the suffering of Christ your Son you have saved us all from the death we inherited from sinful Adam. By the law of nature we have borne the likeness of his manhood. May the sanctifying power of grace help us to put on the likeness of our Lord in heaven, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
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EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican - Video: What a beautiful way to share the best news with the whole world! Pope Leo shares his Easter joy with everyone, wishing “Happy Easter” in 10 different languages as a sign of the Church’s unity in diversity. Before this, he also imparted the traditional urbi et orbi blessing, extending Easter grace and peace to the city of Rome and to the entire world.