My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me,

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time

of prayer fruitful. My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

I have risen, and I am with you still, alleluia. You have laid your hand upon me,

alleluia. Too wonderful for me this knowledge. Alleluia, alleluia.

The entrance antiphon to the mass during the day for Easter Sunday

captures something of the immense joy,

the exultation of the world and of the church of God's people

at the resurrection of you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of history,

Lord of love, definitive answer to death, to sin, to hatred, eternal life in person.

I have risen and I am with you still. Alleluia. In this period of prayer in this meditation, we want to get close to you,

Lord, and you make it so easy because you are alive. You are full of life. The Lord Jesus is always

on our side and by our side. We just have to be open to him in our prayer. Mental prayer is in the first instance

to be open to dialogue with our Lord. We know, Lord, that you always love us first, as St. John

says in his epistle, in his first epistle, God loved us first. You take the initiative. Well, Lord, I, I want to be open.

I want to listen to you. I want to speak with you. And I want to exult today with the whole church

and with the whole of creation in the joy of your resurrection. Because indeed, the whole church, the whole world exults.

The whole world, the whole church is filled with light and grace and joy.

It's well beyond what we can actually put into words.

We make some attempt to express it in the exultate, in that wonderful

Easter proclamation from the Easter vigil. Be glad, let earth be glad as glory floods her,

ablaze with light from her eternal king. Let all corners of the earth be glad,

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