If Lent was a time for nurturing our soil and waiting for the delicate seedlings to emerge, carefully thinning them and pulling weeds, Easter is a time to rejoice in the growing leaves and opening blooms! It is a perfect time to go on a nature walk looking for buds and other signs of new life.
What's growing in your garden or neighborhood?
During the Easter season, Catholics throughout the world pray the Regina Coeli in place of the Angelus. This is a lovely tradition to incorporate into one's prayer life:
Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia. / For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia.
Has risen, as he said, alleluia. / Pray for us to God, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. / For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray. O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
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