gospel outdoors The witnesses of the revived divine one preached this event all over the world, accepting happy the poverty, the difficulties, the pursuit and finally the death to testify his truth. This fact, which had upset his life, was changing, in effect, the conditions of existence of the humanity. its consequences are not less wonderful than the fact itself: all the men regenerated by Christ will revive as Him. For Him and in Him they will take part eternally of the God's life. The holiday of Easter is the major one of all the formalities, because Jesus' resurrection is undoubtedly the supreme proof of his divinity, but also because, being our luck joined to his, the victory of Easter is also ours: we are brought by the certainty of our divine destination. Our Lord had proclaimed this solidarity in one of last days that preceded his passion. It could not do it but in veiled terms, with aid of a comparison, which real meaning had escaped then from their disciples. Later they discovered its real sense. They had not forgotten, nevertheless, the specially serious tone with which their Teacher had done this declaration: "the hour Has come - He said in which the Son of Man Will be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that if the grain of wheat fall into the ground, it dies not, it is left alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Such is the law of nature. The grain of wheat contains a germ of new life, but it will remain indefinitely barren if it does not die. The wheat enclosed in the Egyptian tombs was found intact after three thousand years, intact and still capable of germinating. It is necessary that the grain of wheat be buried in the earth, that it decompose, that it die: then, from its death a new and more abundant life arises. The Savior announced in these parables that his death was the necessary condition for his glory and resurrection. Watch at the same time as not only Him. Speaking in propriety, to return to the Father it was enough to disappear suddenly. But just as the grain that rots on the ground not only produces another grain, but from that one grows a spike full of grains similar to it, so Jesus does not consent to enter only in heaven, but with humanity redeemed. That is why he must die. For if he does not die, he remains alone. If he does not die, he will be the only man in whom the divinity has resided. The condition of other men will remain as miserable as before. Nothing will have changed; Humanity will not have been rescued, nor saved. His death, however, will give life to a multitude of new men, more numerous than the new grain of the spike: millions of men will receive their divine life, eternal life. This is why our Lord has wanted to go through death. His sacrifice was the main object of his mission. "No one can take my life," he says, "I give it of my own free will. I have the duty to give it, I have the power to receive it " How sure of himself to express himself in this way! No one before him had had the audacity to utter such words. Death was for humans only a source of sadness, it is still the only adversary that neither the genius nor the power of man has been able to overcome. They all try to escape from it, but they do not succeed, for this brings them all together to the jaws of a ruthless lathe. Only the Son of God could overcome death and tear us from its claws. But death would not have been defeated had Jesus only dodged it. He had to face her in a terrible hand to hand, in which she seemed at first to be able to more
than his victim. The author of life is no more than a corpse that compassionate hands have deposited in a sealed and guarded sepulcher. Jesus is dead. The disciples weep at the Master whom they have so passionately loved. Their faith is broken. But the grain of wheat dies only to give life to mortals. Inside the tomb where the body of Jesus has been shrouded, an unprecedented drama will unfold. The head of humanity has descended into the cold darkness, has gone in search of death in his domain. As the sequence of the Easter Mass says, death and life are measured in a closed field in a surprising duel. Life forces death to release the prey and pulls the poisoned dart that put all humanity at his mercy. An insolent death, "where is your victory, where is your sting?" Exclaims St. Paul. Men will continue to pass through their hands, but will no longer hold them in their clutches. Jesus Christ comes out of the tomb. He has overcome the death It has risen. His disciples begin to give no credit to the triumph of their Master. However, it is He whom they again contemplate: the sign of the nails is in their hands. It is really Him, whom they hear and touch on the road to Emmaus, in the upper room, with the doors closed, on the hill of Galilee, on the shores of Lake Tiberias. They see him again as he was before, with the same personality, his heart ardent and generous. Jesus had not deceived them by saying to them after the last supper: "I will live and you will live also" (Ioh 14:19). Death has been defeated. Because of Adam, death is still the inevitable punishment of a sinful race, but it is only a painful step thanks to Jesus Christ, forgiven sinners will live again in an incorruptible flesh and, with Him, will participate in the glory of God. Let us sing with a firm voice the paschal alleluia and give thanks to our beloved Savior. Death has lost its virulence for those who believe in Jesus Christ, It will not engulf us forever. At dawn on Easter day let us think of our dear departed ones, resting in the peace of Christ, who have left us and whom we can always love more. We have not released the prey by the shadow, following Jesus Christ. Our efforts are not in vain. Our hope is not a myth. We do well to be interested, kind, merciful, righteous and upright. Our life has a meaning, our life will not have lin. Dear parents, you have done well bringing children into existence and making them good Christians. By doing so, you prepare an eternity of happiness. The feast of Easter points with the defeat of death, that of sin. Since death has been destroyed, sin has been erased. It is left to our account to rid ourselves of bad wishes. Sinners forgiven. Let nothing separate us again from Christ who has loved us so much! Mortal pledges for the resurrection, may our thoughts no longer depart from Christ who awaits us at the right hand of the Father! Yes, we are still on the way of the cross, in the hour of suffering and tears, in the darkness of Calvary, but this feast of feast, which is the feast of feasts, shows us the wonderful end of Our pilgrimage. Let us mark our joyous song of march. "Jesus Christ is risen! Hallelujah! Âť