Cardinal Quevedo's Easter Message 2017
Church • 01:04 AM Mon Apr 17, 2017
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His Eminence Orlando Cardinal B. Quevedo, OMI, DD, archbishop of Cotabato
EASTER MESSAGE 2017
Beloved
Brothers and Sisters in Godand
May
the joy and peace of Easter be with you!
While
others may have a different belief, we believe that Jesus died on the Cross and
after three days rose from the dead. By these events he became our Savior and Redeemer.
We
Catholics expressed our gratitude to God’s gift of salvation, when we renewed
our baptismal promises at the evening Holy Saturday Easter Mass. We renewed two pledges made when we were
baptizedand to believe in, and therefore, to
love God with all our heart,mind, and soul
and to reject Satan and sinfulness.
This
is the new life of Easter that we should live – to be dead to sin and be alive
in God. But the sad reality in ourselves and in our society is that we fail to live
this new life. That is the reason for social injustice, for social division and
conflict, for poverty, for discrimination and violence, for corruption and
dishonesty, for criminality and vice. We believe in the new life we do not
live it.
Easter
and the renewal of baptismal promises remind us of who we are, redeemed and
saved by the Risen Lord, committed to live a life of truth and justice, of love
and peace.
Let
us then give meaning to our Easter rejoicing. Let the Lord Jesus truly reign in
our hearts. He is risen, Alleluiah, Alleluiah!
+Orlando
B. Cardinal Quevedo, O.M.I.
Archbishop
of Cotabato