{"id":105,"date":"2015-04-04T05:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T05:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=105"},"modified":"2015-04-06T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T08:11:24","slug":"easter-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2015\/04\/04\/easter-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Readings: Mark 16:1\u20137<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The disciples thought they were doing one last kindness for Our Lord, and were trying to overcome an obstacle that seemed insurmountable: the stone sealing the tomb. That didn&#8217;t stop them from moving forward. In the end the obstacle was removed without them having to lift a finger, and their life took an unexpected turn: instead of one last gesture of kindness and closure for a departed friend, they received a wonderful surprise: their friend was alive and well. They also received a new mission: they had to spread the news.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of Christ&#8217;s victory over death we know that if we continue along the path he&#8217;s shown us (love for him and for others), even when there are obstacles, even when we don&#8217;t understand, those obstacles will be overcome and those mysteries will be explained, because Christ overcame the biggest obstacle and mystery of all: sin and death.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s follow the angel&#8217;s advice and share with everyone during this Easter season that Christ has risen and no obstacle or mystery can withstand his light and life. Let&#8217;s continue along the path he&#8217;s shown us knowing that following Christ is a path with obstacles and unknowns, but also with wonderful surprises from here to eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings: Mark 16:1\u20137 The disciples thought they were doing one last kindness for Our Lord, and were trying to overcome an obstacle that seemed insurmountable: the stone sealing the tomb. That didn&#8217;t stop them from moving forward. In the end the obstacle was removed without them having to lift a finger, and their life took &#8230; <a title=\"Easter Vigil\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2015\/04\/04\/easter-vigil\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Easter Vigil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,5,17],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cycle-b","tag-easter","tag-easter-vigil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}