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Pope Francis presided over the traditional Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter in a full Saint Peter's Basilica on Saturday evening. The celebration started inside at the entrance of the Basilica with the evocative rite of the blessing of fire followed by the candlelight procession whilewas sung and the Basilica lights came on in all their brilliance. The celebration included the baptism and confirmation of eight catechumens from Albania, the United States, Nigeria, Italy and Venezuela.
And we can sometimes archive in our minds our first faith encounter with the Lord as something that belongs to the past and has less relevance in today's difficult world marked by darkness, war, indifference and an uncertain future. This disillusionment, the Pope observed, can lead to the wellspring of hope drying up within us.The women at Easter became immediately transformed by their experience of the empty tomb and the Lord's resurrection, the Pope explained.
The return to Galilee calls on us to return to"the grace of our own past," the Pope suggested, in order to revive the memory of our experience of the Lord's love and when we"received a radiantly new way of seeing ourselves, the world around us and the mystery of life itself." “Brother, sister, remember Galilee, your Galilee, and your call. Remember the Word of God who at a precise moment spoke directly to you. Remember that powerful experience of the Spirit.”
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