VIA LUCIS

Original text: ViaLucis.org

Introduction

Song

P In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

A Amen

P The life is an unceasing journey. We do not travel this road alone. The Risen Christ has promised us: "I am with you always, to the close of the age." (Mt 28,20). Life must be a process of continuous resurrection. We are gathered here, brothers and sisters, to realise that our life is an Easter itinerary with the Risen Jesus who guides our footsteps. Once a scribe said to him: "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go" (Mt 8,19). Everywhere: on Calvary, along the Way of the Light. We are going to rediscover the resurrection as a source of our peace, as an energy of our joy, as stimulus to a newness of the history. We will hear about it as it is proclaimed in the biblical texts, expounded in spiritual experience, enlarged as it is actualised in our "today" , which is "today" of God.

(Pause for meditation)

A Rejoice, Mother of the light: Jesus, sun of justice, having defeated the darkness of the death illumines the whole universe. Alleluia.

P Let us pray. Father, send forth your Spirit of light upon us, that we may enter into the Easter mystery of your only Son, that marks the true destiny of the man. This isn't the end of everything but it is the newness of all. Father, the last word belongs to you who leads us, your sons, from death to life. Give us the Spirit of the Risen Christ and make us able to love. This way we will become witnesses of his resurrection.

A Amen