"This experience went on the Pope has engraved, once and for all, the hallelujah in the heart of the Church!" and from it "comes the prayer that we say today and every day of Easter time instead of the Angelus: the Marian antiphon Regina Caeli. The text is short and has the direct form of an announcement: it is like a new "annunciation" to Mary, made not by an angel this time, but by the Christians who invite the Mother to rejoice because her Son, that she bore in her womb, has resurrected as He had promised. Actually, "rejoice" had been, in Nazareth, the first word spoken to the Virgin by the heavenly messenger. And the meaning was: Rejoice, Mary, because the Son of God is about to become man in you. Now, after the drama of the Passion, a new invitation to joy resounds: “Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia, quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia Rejoice and be happy, Virgin Mary, hallelujah, because the Lord has really resurrected, hallelujah!”.” “Then, Benedict XVI made the wish, that "the Easter hallelujah may be deeply impressed in us too, so that it will not be just a word, but the expression of our very life: the existence of people who invite everyone to praise the Lord and do it through their behaviour as ‘resurrected people'”.
