From The Liturgical Year:
"Let us suppose, for a moment, that we had been permitted to arrange the
order of
these two mysteries. We should have summoned the whole world, kings and
people,
to go and pay homage at the crib. We should have trumpeted to all
nations the
miracle of miracles, the resurrection of the Crucified, the victory over
death,
the restoration of mankind to immortality! But He who is ‘the power and
wisdom of God,” Christ Jesus our Lord, has followed a very different
plan. When
born in Bethlehem He would have for His first worshippers a few simple
minded
shepherds, whose power to herald the great event was confined to their
own
village: and yet the birthday of this little Child is now the era of
every
civilized nation. For the first witnesses of His resurrection, He chose
three
weak women; and yet, the whole earth is now, at this very moment,
celebrating
the anniversary of this resurrection. There is in it a mysterious
feeling of joy
unlike that of any other day throughout the year: no one can resist it,
not
even the coldest heart. The infidel who scoffs at the believer, knows at
least
that this is Easter Sunday. Yea, in the very countries where paganism
and
idolatry are still rife, there are Christians whose voices unite with
ours in
singing the glorious Alleluia to our risen Jesus. Let us, then, cry out
as Moses
did, when the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea, and were keeping their
first
Pasch:
‘Who, O Lord, is like unto Thee, among the strong?'"
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