But dear brothers, dear friends, we have heard the message that the angel directed to the women coming to the tomb. Christ is risen. You have been celebrating this holy night, dear children, in this church, and in the way, and in the spirit, which the grace of God anoints us to do. is in itself such a manifestation of the glory of the resurrection of life here among us. Easter is not a remembrance of something that once happened, and that we consider with a certain nostalgia, but it is a reality. It is a presence, and it is a presence here in our hearts. because who could not be in this moment filled with greatest joy, seeing here the circle of the Most, seeing us as priests together as a college, as a community, celebrating and offering this Holy Sacrifice, looking forward at this moment to the solemn mufish of our two brothers, Elias and Peter,

[01:30]

to see the fullness of their goodwill, to see in the vows which they pronounce, and which takes garrison their entire life and puts it into the hands of our eternal Father, who could not see their facts, the reality of God's mercy lasting forever, of the resurrection becoming a fact again, who could doubt stability, conversion of minds, and obedience, if we did not do it in the spirit of a risen saint? On our human spirit and with our natural means and resources, it would be impossible. We know how frail we are as human beings. We know how we change our decisions and our best resolutions.

[02:37]

To make a vow is something that comes out of that love with which God has loved us from the beginning and will love us unto the end. That is the spirit of the vow. And therefore, those two of our brethren, in a very special way, they enter into tonight's celebration, which is really the wedding feast of the Lamb. We have sung the Alleluia. We have sung it with such great joy. What is this Alleluia? But the new canticle of the Lamb, our answer to God's eternal law. He loves us, and we crave Him. And that invitation and that answer, that is the essence of all life.

[03:39]

That is the essence of history. That is really the new man, the one who is able to answer God's infinite law. And that is the meaning of the word. In that way, don't only consider them as different from you, consider them as your gift, consider them as your representative, consider them as witnesses of that which is most deep, inner, in your own heart. So with them, you also enter into their spirit. which you have already pronounced solemnly tonight in the renewal of the baptismal vow. You know very well how much at this moment the world, mankind, drifting away and drifting in very new directions, how much we are longing for this warm stability,

[04:47]

And really, the eternal love of God takes root in our hearts. That is, in the end, really and truly, that paradise to which God switched in the form that we are in this life. The chaos is unreliability. The chaos is unrest. But the paradise is rest. paradise is stability. Not instability of immobility and laziness, but the stability of the constant fullness of love. That is what we express in the word animu. So let us celebrate this life freely as our home, returning home, returning to the Father, anticipating already in this celebration, and especially in the vows of our two brothers, anticipating already that eternity in which we sing without end, May glory and praise be to God the Father, through Christ who is the Savior, in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and at this moment unites us around His cross.

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