In the Enlightenment,
Easter Anthem, 1787
The Lord is ris’n indeed! Hallelujah!
Now is Christ risen from the dead,
And become the first-fruits of them that slept.
Hallelujah, and did He rise? did He rise?
Hear it ye nations! hear it, Oh ye dead!
He rose, He burst the
Corcomroe Abbey - built 1025 - 1211 CE:
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Dawn Mass Reflections at Corcomroe Abbey
"On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so
generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry --
old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling -- and let us have the
courage to begin
