JESUS IS RISEN! HAPPY EASTER!!! :)

Jesus is the LORD OF LIGHT! ALLELUIA!
Jesus us RISEN! ALLELUIA!



Today, my family and I went at San Pedro Cathedral early this morning to celebrate the Easter Sunday or so what we called the "SUGAT" or the meeting of the Risen Christ and Mary.

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

Easter is the time for holidays, festivals and a time for giving chocolate Easter eggs. But Easter means much more....

Easter is the oldest and the most important Christian Festival, the celebration of the death and coming to life again of Jesus Christ. For Christians, the dawn of Easter Sunday with its message of new life is the high point of the Christian year.

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What is the Easter story ?

Easter is the story of Jesus' last days in Jerusalem before his death.The Easter story includes Maundy Thursday (the Last supper leading to the Eucharist), Good Friday (the day on which Jesus was crucified) and Easter Day (the day on which Jesus came back to life).

It is a sad story because Jesus was killed. But the story has a very happy ending, because Jesus came back to life and visited his friends and followers once more. He did not die at all, but went back up to Heaven to be with God, his father.




Jesus is alive! Alleluia! The Paschal Mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ comes to fruition today with the celebration of His Resurrection. The glory of God is shown in the Resurrection of Jesus on the third day after His crucifixion on Mount Calvary.

Our mourning has been turned into rejoicing. The darkness has been conquered by the light. The scars on his body have been turned into stars of victory over sin and death. This is the greatest feast in Christianity – Jesus lives on and will forever reign in our hearts!
The resurrection should be seen in the context of the life and ministry of Jesus. The disciples believed that through the resurrection, God had vindicated Jesus. God favored his Son for being faithful to his mission of proclaiming the Good News to all.

We prepared for this great season for 40 days with prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. All these were intended to break us from our worldly attachments and focus on the most important things in our life – things that will nourish our relationship with the Lord and with one another. Unless we let go of our selfish desires, we will never experience the tremendous power of God over us.

We will only share in the Easter joy if we truly respond to his offer of life and love. Like Jesus, we shall be glorified if we become faithful to the mission God has entrusted to each one of us – a mission of bringing the Good News to all.


In a world filled with darkness, we are called to bring the Good News of hope to our society today. Easter is a celebration of hope. We are a people of the Resurrection. As we follow in the footsteps of Jesus, we are called to be strong and not anymore be defeated by humanity’s selfishness and greed. We must breathe life into our seemingly hopeless world. We are also called to enhance and nurture all of creation so as to serve the needs of all.

May the Easter joy prod us to live a life pleasing to God.



Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.

Eggs are a forbidden food during Lent, making them a welcome return to the menu on Easter Day.


Why do we give eggs at Easter?


Easter is a Christian festival. For Christians the custom of giving eggs at Easter celebrates new life. Christians remember that Jesus, after dying on the cross, rose from the dead. They believe that, through his resurrection, Jesus defeated death and sin and offers people the promise of eternal life if they follow his teachings.


What were the first Easter eggs like?

The first eggs given at Easter were birds eggs. These eggs were painted in bright colours to give them further meaning as a gift. We still paint bird eggs today but usually only chicken eggs.

Easter bunnyAn Anglo-Saxon legend - the Easter bunny and eggs

An Anglo-Saxon legend tells how the Saxon goddess Eostre found a wounded bird and transformed it into a hare, so that it could survive the Winter.


The hare found it could lay eggs, so it decorated these each Spring and left them as offering to the goddess.