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Introduction: At each celebration of the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, we gather around the
paschal candle and proclaim the power of the night when Christ rose from the dead. In a hymn
called the Exsultet we call upon all creation to rejoice at Jesus Christ, our King, risen from the
dead. Easter is more than a feast we celebrate once a year. The paschal candle and the Exsultet
are reminders that through Jesus’ death and resurrection we have been brought from darkness
into God’s marvelous light. This short litany of deliverance is a meditation on the power of the
Light of Christ to deliver us from our sin and death.
Guide: Lord Jesus, you who are the Risen One, your passion and death has allowed us to pass
over from death to new life. In our baptism we were buried with you in order to rise in you. We are
assured of the power of the cross in which we can trust, even in this present darkness. You have
told us that nothing can take us out of your hand. As we pray for our Church we ask that the
grace of your resurrection will “dispel all evil.”