around the new fire. Anyone who has anything of it or the religions of mankind knows also that this custom of the new fire is something that is not material with which it can, but which is truly universal. When I opened this big international belonging, there was a new beginning. And the new life, the new beginning of our faith was celebrated in the light the sign of symbolism of the fire.

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The fire not seen as simply an ordinary, as a natural element, but as a symbol of the divine. The fire is in itself living, can see it from a sense. It is at the same time a purifying element, and it has the Power to transform. It has the power to ignite them. It has the power to give warmth and light to those who stand around it. So fire, therefore, was always considered, and also in the Old Testament and the New Testament, as a symbol of God. God is divine. And it is impossible for man to dwell with the devouring fire, as Isaiah the prophet said, that dwells in an inaccessible life.

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Therefore, tonight, we consecrate this fire, we bless it, and we take it in solemnly, humbly, as human beings, as priests, of the Almighty God into the service of this celebration which we start tonight. and which is, as you know, to pass over our passing through the night, out of the night, rising into newness of the day, under the leadership and with our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us and who rises for us. And therefore, the second thing that I shall do right now, after resting with fire, is to prepare the Easter candle. The Easter candle, there it is, in water, white, black, beaded black, always considered by the fathers in Salem as a symbol of purity, of that virginity, of that virginal water.

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that our Lord Jesus Christ in the world of God took on for Mary in the Virgin. And that is the first thing that we shall do. We shall cut into the candle the sign of the cross, but here as a sign of we eternal enter into history. Therefore we speak of the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. Christ, the eternal Word of God, in the act of incompletion, enters into history. And Christ is the same yesterday and today. And therefore we inscribe also the number of this year, 1966, Even through the incarnation, the prayer of our Heavenly Father reaches us in our soul.

[04:33]

And in a special way because this incarnation serves then the operation of Christ. And therefore the next act is to mark the five wounds in the body of this animal. And the five rules signify our Lord's suffering, his passion, his passing, and then the life is given, and that is the resurrection. And then we follow the wisdom set, the light of the wisdom set. We all join. We enter into a procession, and we are guided by the teachings. The people in the Christian celebration always represents the new generation. And that is what we do tonight. And you will find the deacon announces light of Christ. That is the Christ which opens a new age. It's a new beginning.

[05:35]

And so also the exultant, which is that song. You know, we all, we all follow him in a kind of exodus. We leave the darkness, we end up into the chapel, and viewing the end, everyone takes his camel and his own canvas bike. from the original, from the risen Savior of the world. And that means our verification is that this one light is communicating to all. Without diminishing in itself, it becomes everybody's own light. So the candle of our own light is kindled from the risen Savior. And that is, my dear friends, you realize that we celebrate this feast and this night in a moment of the church makes a new beginning, doesn't it? And this new time.

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around which we are gathered, is a symbol of that year of Jubilee that the Holy Father has announced for all Christianity, in which the Church renews herself in faith in Christ the risen Savior. And that is what you also feel, what you realize. You will see that in the version that we celebrate of the Church. and that we do in the Vipassana, or we do it in the Vipassana, that it may immediately enter into your heart. that you are really and truly empowered, that no barrier of that which is between you and between that new life, that present Savior is so eager to give every individual Christian any celebration of this time. And that is a step into newness. That is why we don't celebrate this celebration tonight as a kind of spectacle.

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that just appeals to your aesthetical sensitivity or to your historical sense. But we celebrate this as an event which is here and now, your own life, your own new beginning. And therefore we do it in a way which you can fully and immediately understand that in itself already signifies and shows you the miracle beginning that the Church is making in this time. And therefore let us celebrate this night, the reading, not only as a night of rebirth of all those creatures that are together here, That is our participation in this wonderful renewal of the Church that has been initiated by the Second Vatican Council.

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