In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit, amen.

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 your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my father, and Lord, my guardian angel, and to seed for me.

Well, during this Easter season, which is the culmination of the liturgical year, we celebrate our Lord's ultimate victory over sin

and the devil.

The devil is always conquered if we freely turn to Jesus Christ through His sacraments and even through our exercise of our interior life.

It's a victory over sin that the human person on his or her own cannot overcome.

And the grace of the paschal mystery, that is, his death and resurrection, has won us the capacity to go beyond our sinfulness and repent and be immersed into the life of Jesus Christ.

We want to look at, in this time of prayer, the relationship of the prince of the apostles,

St. Peter, his relationship with the resurrection.

He is the prominent beneficiary of the most important effect of the pascal mystery,

Jesus' death and resurrection.

Hardly had the Lord risen from the dead that he transmitted his very power

to forgive sins. He entrusted to that power, transmitted it to the apostles themselves.

When he said, whose sins you forgive are forgiven,

whose sins you retain are retained.

And that's why that gospel is the gospel of Mercy Sunday. Jesus resurrects and he gets down to work. He doesn't waste a moment.

He says, now that I have formally and officially won the grace of redemption, the grace of forgiveness,

and the sacraments will be the chief conduits

of this grace I have won on the cross. And in my resurrection, my resurrection is

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