Easter Sunday March 31 Homily: Fr Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:10in Christ Jesus risen from the dead we
2. 0:13are
3. 0:15Joyful We Are
4. 0:17unafraid and we are filled with
5. 0:20hope deep seated
6. 0:24Joy courageous lack of fear and
7. 0:28undying hope are the marks of a
8. 0:31Christian anyone who is following the
9. 0:33Lord who has a relationship with Christ
10. 0:37knows that Joy experiences the courage
11. 0:41of lack of fear and undying
12. 0:44hope they are the precious possessions
13. 0:47of being a disciple of
14. 0:50Christ but the question is why is the
15. 0:52Christian disciple
16. 0:54joyful why is a Christian unafraid and
17. 0:58filled with hope
18. 1:00well because Jesus Christ is risen from
19. 1:03the
20. 1:03dead therefore we put all of our faith
21. 1:07in him we put our faith in his words and
22. 1:10in his
23. 1:12promises many people good and bad have
24. 1:15made lasting marks on our
25. 1:18history Carl Marx's body is in a grave
26. 1:22in
27. 1:23London n's body is in a grave in
28. 1:27Lutsen Muhammad's body is in a in a
29. 1:30grave in
30. 1:31Medina Buddha's body is in a grave in
31. 1:35ping there have been there have even
32. 1:38been persons that have been
33. 1:41resuscitated like Elijah and Alicia and
34. 1:44of course Lazarus who later did face a
35. 1:47second
36. 1:49death but if you travel to Christ's
37. 1:52grave in
38. 1:53Jerusalem it's
39. 1:55empty and it's been empty for 2,000
40. 1:58years because only one has risen from
41. 2:02the dead and that is Jesus
42. 2:05Christ whose mortal body was transformed
43. 2:08into a glorious
44. 2:10body because you see nothing can rise
45. 2:13from the dead except
46. 2:16Divinity and though he intimately and
47. 2:19permanently United himself to human
48. 2:21flesh through the Incarnation Christ
49. 2:24rose from the dead not because he was a
50. 2:26man but because he was
51. 2:28God and as God he made us a startling
52. 2:32promise and to the world a
53. 2:35Preposterous
54. 2:37promise that if you're
55. 2:40baptized into his body and stay United
56. 2:43to him through lives of Faith you too
57. 2:46will
58. 2:48rise just like he did rise from our
59. 2:51tombs of Life Everlasting sharing with
60. 2:54him the joy of Heaven forever those are
61. 2:57his
62. 2:58words that's his his promise to
63. 3:01us that is the source of our inner Joy
64. 3:05our undying hope that is why we are
65. 3:10unafraid illness loss tragedy
66. 3:14innumerable bad things happen to us in
67. 3:16our lives and they touch us at some
68. 3:19point or another to one extent or
69. 3:23another but the Christian with eyes
70. 3:26firmly fixed on the resurrected Christ
71. 3:29knows that that those things cannot
72. 3:31touch our inner
73. 3:32Joy they cannot touch Our Hope or cause
74. 3:36us to
75. 3:38fear the Christian knows that everything
76. 3:40passes the good and the
77. 3:43bad and that only Christ risen from the
78. 3:45dead remains Christ is alive his kingdom
79. 3:49will have no
80. 3:51end and as his disciples we are part of
81. 3:54that
82. 3:56Kingdom the struggles to remain faithful
83. 3:58amid the Myriad Temptations of the world
84. 4:02and the poor examples that surround
85. 4:04us the struggles to remain honest pure
86. 4:08faithful kind and attentive to the needs
87. 4:11of our neighbors the struggles the the
88. 4:14humiliation sometimes and even the
89. 4:17persecution that comes from following
90. 4:20Christ we know all of these things will
91. 4:23be made up for a h hundredfold on
92. 4:25Judgment Day when the Risen Christ will
93. 4:28give us an everlas lasting reward for
94. 4:31our
95. 4:33faith and so we are Christians with
96. 4:37joy we are Christians who are unafraid
97. 4:40and have undying hope that is the faith
98. 4:44that we celebrate today the faith that
99. 4:47we celebrate every
100. 4:50Sunday we can endure all the good
101. 4:52Fridays that the world wants to throw at
102. 4:55us because we know in our
103. 4:57hearts that Easter Sunday is there that
104. 5:02we believe in Easter Sunday so while
105. 5:05Easter is rightly about the Triumph of
106. 5:08Christ over sin and death this day is
107. 5:10also about us this is our feast day
108. 5:15too being a disciple of Jesus Christ
109. 5:18carries no guarantees about the
110. 5:20world Jesus did not promise wealth or
111. 5:23power or status or Earthly pleasure to
112. 5:26his
113. 5:28followers being B baptized does not
114. 5:30vaccinate us against illness or loss or
115. 5:34tragedy following Christ does not exempt
116. 5:37us from the innumerable crosses that we
117. 5:39will bear in our
118. 5:41life what Jesus does
119. 5:43promise is a share in his resurrection
120. 5:46onto eternal life if we remain faithful
121. 5:49unto
122. 5:51him that's why through the centuries the
123. 5:53marter bravely confronted their
124. 5:56fate why missionaries are risking
125. 5:58everything to to bravely bring the
126. 6:01gospel to the
127. 6:02world why the faithful throughout all
128. 6:04the ages have patiently endured
129. 6:08persecution it's why courageous men and
130. 6:10women have lived heroic lives of
131. 6:14Faith why because of the promise of
132. 6:17eternal life that Christ gives us
133. 6:19through our
134. 6:21faith you see people don't come to Faith
135. 6:24by convincing arguments or even solely
136. 6:26by the clergy they're brought to the
137. 6:29faith faith in Christ by his
138. 6:31Apostles and that's
139. 6:33you who manifest your faith and give an
140. 6:37example for all to
141. 6:39see today we celebrate the rising of
142. 6:42Jesus Christ to a new life and we
143. 6:44celebrate with grateful Hearts our share
144. 6:46in the Life of Christ as his disciples a
145. 6:50life that nothing on Earth can take
146. 6:53away and that's why we're
147. 6:55joyful that's why we should be unafraid
148. 6:59and have undying
149. 7:01hope our faith is not simply a faith
150. 7:05based on a nice man who lived 2,000
151. 7:08years ago who taught nice things and
152. 7:10said nice things no more beautifully our
153. 7:14faith is in a living person a concrete
154. 7:18living person Jesus Christ the son of
155. 7:20man who offered
156. 7:22himself on the cross in order to take
157. 7:26away our sins and who on this day has Ro
158. 7:30has risen triumphantly from the
159. 7:33grave so my brothers and sisters have
160. 7:36that
161. 7:37joy and when you share with each other
162. 7:40the Pascal Easter Proclamation when you
163. 7:43say to each other Allelujah you should
164. 7:45say it with a smile on your face and
165. 7:47with deep joy in your
166. 7:49heart praise Be Our Risen Christ now and
167. 7:53forever Allelujah Allelujah
168. 7:58amen