This is the night which now delivers all over the world those that believe in Christ from the vices of the world and darkness of sin, restores them to grace, and clothes them with sanctity.
Sound the trumpet of salvation! Therefore, O Lord, we pray you that this candle, hallowed to the honour of your name, may persevere undimmed, to overcome the darkness of this night. In the later form, white vestments are worn throughout. First, it represents the pillar of fire that went before the Israelites during their flight from Egypt. Christus Filius tuus, qui regressus ab inferis, humano generi serenus illuxit, et vivit et regnat in saecula saeculorum.
Let the earth also be filled with joy, illuminated with such resplendent rays; and let men know that the darkness which overspread the whole world is chased away by the splendor of our eternal King. The new here is not even a good translation of the Latin except for the plural feasts which does not make sense when the liturgy is about the feast being celebrated New This is the night that with a pillar of fire banished the darkness of sin.
My dearest friends, standing with me in this holy light, join me in asking God for mercy. Rejoice, O Mother Church! Precamur ergo te, Domine, ut nos famulos tuos, omnemque clerum, et devotissimum populum, una cum beatissimo Papa nostro N. This then is the night which dissipated the darkness of sin by the light of the pillar. This is the night when Jesus Christ broke the chains of death and rose triumphant from the grave. It is right and just. For it is fed by the melting wax, which the mother bee brought forth to make this precious candle.
O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer! The order is, briefly:. O truly blessed night, in which heaven is united to earth, and God to man! Nihil enim nobis nasci profuit, nisi redimi profuisset. Our birth would have been no gain, had we not been redeemed.
O truly blessed night, worthy alone to know the time and hour when Christ rose from the underworld! Salvation through the obedience of Christ. O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! The Easter Vigil comes around every year. And with your spirit.
The sign of a life consecrated to God. By accepting this message, you will be leaving the website of the Exiltet States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just. It is truly right and just, with ardent love of mind and heart and with devoted service of our voice, to acclaim our God invisible, the almighty Father, and Jesus Christ, our Lord, his Son, his Only Begotten.
Who for our sake paid Adam's debt to the eternal Father, and, pouring out his own dear Blood, wiped clean the record of our ancient sinfulness.
These, then, are the feasts of Passover, in which is slain the Lamb, the one true Lamb, whose Blood anoints the doorposts of believers. This is the night, when once you led our forebears, Israel's children, from slavery in Egypt and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea.
This is the night that even now, throughout the world, sets Christian believers apart from worldly vices and from the gloom of sin, leading them to grace and joining them to his holy ones.
This is the night, when Christ broke the prison-bars of death and rose victorious from the underworld. O wonder of your humble care for us! O love, O charity beyond all telling, to ransom a slave you gave away your Son!
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