Easter

Taking time to bless easter eggs (chocolate or dyed) can teach children and remind us of God's gift of new life for us and how Christ burst forth out of the shell of His tomb so that we can have everlasting life.  The blessing can be found in the document section on this page.

Easter Egg Blessing 01
O Master, Lord our God, the Creator and Maker of all things:  Bless this curdled milk and with it these eggs, and preserve us in Your goodness, that partaking of these, we may be filled with Your gifts, which You bestow on us ungrudgingly, together with Your unspeakable goodness.  For Yours is the dominion, Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory:  of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. >  
 
Easter Egg Blessing 02
Bless, O Lord, we beseech Thee, this Thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance to Thy faithful servants, eaten in thankfulness to Thee, in honor of the Resurrection of Our Lord.
 
Easter Egg Blessing 03
Most Holy God, whose majesty and purpose are veiled in ineffable mystery, yet wonderfully manifest in the most fragile of the works of thy hand:  Bless these eggs to be signs of the Tomb which could not hold thy Son; grant that they may give wholesome nourishment to thy faithful people who are baptized into his death and share in the new life of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit in glory everlasting. Amen.
 
Easter Egg Blessing 04
O Lord our God, in celebration of the Paschal feast we have prepared these eggs from your creation:  Grant that they may be to us a sign of the new life and immortality promised to those who follow your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen

If you are talented enough, you can try to make a cake in the shape of a lamb.  In order to remind everyone that Jesus is the Lamb of God and that life with Him is sweeter than anything on this earth.

Catapillars appear dead to the world in their little cocoons but eventually they burst forth into new life as butterflies.  This is a great image for children of what Resurrection means.

Easter Prayers

01 Easter Prayer
Trembling for joy cries all creation; what is this mystery, so great and new?  The Lord has risen from among the dead, And Death itself He crushed with valiant foot.  Behold the cruel tyrant bound and chained, and manmade free by Him who rose!
 
02 Easter Prayer
This is the Night,  Which throughout the world  Frees all who believe in Christ  From the vices of their time-shackled existence,  From the lightless dungeon of sin,  And restores them to grace: unites them to holiness. This is the Night In which Christ broke the chains of death and rose in radiant victory from the pit of Hades.
 
03 Easter Prayer
O mystery great and glorious, that mortal flesh should conquer death, and all our human pains and wounds The Lord should heal by bearing them. Behold how man, though crushed by death, now does arise and live with Christ, While death, repelled and robbed of might, Dies from its own malignant sting.
 
04 Easter Prayer of St. Hippolytus of Rome
Christ is Risen: The world below lies desolate Christ is Risen: The spirits of evil are fallen Christ is Risen: The angels of God are rejoicing Christ is Risen: The tombs of the dead are empty Christ is Risen indeed from the dead, the first of the sleepers, Glory and power are his forever and ever

05 Catholic Collect for Easter Sunday
God our Father,  By raising Christ your Son  You conquered the power of death  And opened for us the way to eternal life  Let our celebration today raise us up  And renew our lives by the Spirit that is within us.  Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,  One God, forever and ever  Amen

06 Eastern Prayer of Christ Resurrected
Christ, rising again from the dead  Dieth now no more:  Death shall no more have dominion over him;  For in that he died, he died once:  But in that he liveth, he liveth unto God,  Alleluia, alleluia.

Let the Jews now tell us, How the soldiers, who guarded the sepulcher, Lost the King, Though they had placed a rock over him Why kept they not the Rock of Justice?  Either let them restore the buried One, or adore with us the risen One, saying:  But in that he liveth, He liveth unto God, Alleluia, alleluia.

07 Prayer to the Resurrected Christ who Saves Us
O Jesus, King, receive my supplication, and consider my supplication, as a pledge to You. For you, O living King, have gone forth and gone up, out of Hell, as Conqueror.

Woe to those who have rejected you; For, to evil spirits and demons,  You are sorrow,  to Satan and to Death, You are pain,  To Sin and Hell, You are mourning.

Yet, joy has come today, for those who are born anew.  On this great day therefore, we give great glory to You, who died and is now alive, that to all you may give life and resurrection

08 A Prayer For Easter
Alleluia! Aleluia!
Hearts to heaven and voices raise: sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a humn of praise.  He, who on the cross a victim, for thew orld's salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of Glory, now is risen from the dead. 

Christ is risen, we are risen!  Shed upon us heavenly grace, rain and dew, and glams of glory from the brightness of thy face; that we, with our hearts in heaven, here on earth may fruitful be, and by angel hands be gathered, and be ever, Lord, with thee. Alleluia! Alleulia!