Jaroslav Pelikan once wrote:
If Christ is not risen from the dead, nothing else matters.
Yesterday we sang the Easter Sequence, and may do so at all the liturgies of this week:
Offer your thankful praises!
A Lamb the sheep redeemeth;
Christ who only is sinless,
Reconcileth sinners to the Father.
Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous:
The Prince of Life, who died, reigns immortal.
Speak, Mary, declaring what thou sawest, wayfaring
The tomb of Christ, who is living,
The glory of Jesus' resurrection:
Bright angels attesting,
The shroud and grave clothes resting.
Yea, Christ my hope is arisen:
To Galilee He goes before you.
Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.
Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning!
Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning!
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