Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
"Now in the mind of the Church Easter is the feast of Christ’s full triumph. Rather than singling out isolated events or acts from our Savior’s earthly life, she prefers to view the work of redemption as a completed whole. Today, Easter, the incarnate Son of God has finished His redemptive work; He has triumphed over the prince of this world; by rising from the dead He has authenticated His victory and as booty claims redeemed mankind. Such is the fundamental message of Easter.
The early Christians kept but one feast, Easter. And they were right in doing so, for the Easter solemnity embraces all the events in the life of Christ. His birth, baptism, passion, death are all segments of His one great task, the work of man’s redemption. At Easter this work reaches its full and final stage. At Easter He becomes the glorified Head of the mystical Body; that Body can now expand unto its predestined fullness, it may now sanctify and divinize all its members."
—Pius Parsch