Primogenitus mortuorum

Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere.
We knjow that Christ is truly risen from the dead.
Easter Sequence Victimæ paschali
H/eltdf_dropcaps]ÆC dies quam fecit Dominus. This is the day the Lord has made: let us rejoice and exult (Ps 117 [118]:24). The Psalmist hails the dies dominica foretold since the time of the Old Testament as the day of the restoration of the divine order in Christ.
The messianic prophecies reveal to us the fulfillment of the Paschal Mystery. The glorious Messiah, conqueror of sin and death, is hailed by Sacred Scripture as the beginning, the firstborn of those who rise from the dead, so that He might have primacy over all things (Col 1:18); the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth, who loved us and cleansed us from our sins by His blood (Rev 1:5). Christ is the testis fidelis, the witness worthy of belief, for His testimony was brought to fulfillment through His faithfulness, even unto death.
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