Proverb

  “A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.”

 

--John Keats

Christ the Lord is risen

"Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen,
Our joy that hath no end."

--John of Damascus

Baptized in Christ

 "All you who have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ, alleluia."

--from the Mass of Easter Saturday

Easter Friday

"Without love, everything is painful, everything is tiring, everything is burdensome.  The Cross, taken up hesitantly, is crushing;  taken smilingly, by free will, and with love, it will carry you much more than you carry it.  Love makes time eternal by giving a divine value to everything."

--Father Jean C. J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love

His marvelous light

"Ye people whom God hath purchased, declare the virtues, alleluia, of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light, alleluia."

--from the Mass of Easter Thursday

Easter Wednesday

Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness!

Christ is risen!

--Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

Love

 
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

--Jean Anouilh