EASTER MESSAGE 2010
By HIS EMINENCE GAUDENCIO B. CARDINAL ROSALES
Archbishop of Manila

Among the many doubts that followed the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was the search for Him where He was before. The Resurrection told us that He would not be found where we wished to meet Him in the usual spots in the past. An angel announced, “He is not here, He has been raised just as He said … go to Galilee, you will meet Him there.”

The triumph of Jesus over sin and the evils that humans learned and still continue to do, and over death itself, means that after the Resurrection, it can never be “business as usual.”

The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ announced a new way of behaving, a new way of loving, a new way of serving and how we could all be bound by Peace. After the Resurrection no more shall there be compromising with deceit, dishonesty, and the worship of money and power.

How beautiful is the coincidence that Easter always precedes a National Election because the lessons of the Resurrection lead to new life and a new encouraging service. Discern with prayerful judgment as to who the nation should entrust with the task of new and inspiring honest leadership that leads to unity and peace.

May the Risen Lord bless us all!

+GAUDENCIO B. CARDINAL ROSALES, D.D.
Archbishop of Manila
April 4, 2010