"I seem to hear their voices: the one of Mary Magdalene, who was the first to see the Lord Resurrected in the garden next to the Calvary; the voices of the women who met Him as they were running, scared and happy, to give the disciples the announcement of the empty grave".” “With some images, Benedict XVI proposed a reflection on the Hallelujah before saying the Regina Caeli yesterday morning in Castelgandolfo.” “I seem to hear, added the Pope, "the voices of the two disciples, who had started off for Emmaus, their faces sad, and at night came back to Jerusalem, full of joy for having listened to His word and having recognised Him ‘in the breaking of the bread’", and again, "the voices of the eleven Apostles who at that time saw Him appear amidst them at the Last Supper, showing the wounds of the nails and the spear and telling them: “Peace be with you!” ” “Then the Pope explained: "In the solemn Easter vigil, we hear again, after the days of Lent, the song of the Hallelujah, a universally-known Hebrew word which means "Praise the Lord". In the days of Easter, this invitation to praise reverberates from mouth to mouth, from heart to heart. It echoes from a perfectly new event: the death and resurrection of Christ". (continued)
