Easter Triduum Homilies 2011  
Entering into the Paschal Mystery

Just as Sunday is the high point of the week, Easter is the high point of the year. The meaning of the great feast is revealed and anticipated throughout the Triduum, which brings the people of God into contact - through liturgy, symbol, and sacrament - with the central events of the life of Christ ...

To read more of this reflection by Carl Olson from Ignatius Insight, click HERE.

It is at Mass that we are nourished with the Passover Lamb of the New Covenant ... that allows us to pass-over the rule of Satan in this world.

• In many ways, Pilate is a modern man who would fit very well in today's morally relativistic society ... "what is truth" he asked.
• Christ rules but only for those committed to and searching for the truth ... He is Truth.

• At each Mass, Christ's one Sacrifice at Calvary in atonement for our sins is actualized, or is made present.
• It is only after His Resurrection, and with His Ascension that Christ undertook the priestly offering phase of the Sacrifice of Calvary as our mediator and intercessor which takes place in eternity, the heavenly Holy of Holies.
• At Mass, we dove-tail/ participate-in this eternal Liturgy presided by Christ Himself before the Father's throne.
• Important lesson from the book of Revelation: the Eucharist is the most important event that takes place in the world!