Lord our God,
by raising Jesus, your Son, from the dead, you have opened a breach at the very heart of our impossibilities;
you have inscribed within our very being a orientation toward the dawn, where the future might rise for each of us.
The unheard-of has come to pass; the unthinkable has entered history.
You make each of us witnesses, bearers of life.
Through a thousand human mediations, the Gospel circulates and unfolds.
Faith enters into dialogue with all the questions of our time;
faith leads us to revisit all our sources of hope;
faith tells us that life is stronger than death
and that love always has the last word.
“Yes, what we have seen and heard,
we proclaim to you”—
so that our joy may be complete.