Pope Benedict: Easter Message Urbi et Orbi (To the City and to the World)

April 08, 2012

Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the world! “Surrexit Christus, spes mea” – “Christ, my hope, has risen” (Easter Sequence).

May the jubilant voice of the Church reach all of you with the words which the ancient hymn puts on the lips of Mary Magdalene, the first to encounter the risen Jesus on Easter morning. She ran to the other disciples and breathlessly announced: “I have seen the Lord!” (Jn 20:18). We too, who have journeyed through the desert of Lent and the sorrowful days of the Passion, today raise the cry of victory: “He has risen! He has truly risen!” ...

 

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Further information:

• Full text of message (Holy See)
• Video (Holy See)
• Easter Sunday Mass (Mass of the Day): Booklet for the Celebration (Holy See)
• Easter greetings in 58 languages (Holy See)