CAPT. S. M. SHELTON, USN
Commanding Officer
A DAK
S I) N
CDR. E. L. CRANCE, USN
Executive Officer
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EDITOR: H. T. DAVIS, YN1 055-J or 365
CHAPLAINS CORNER,
THE EASTER SONG by Chaplain Francis A.FAf
The climax of history is the Redempt
ion. Everything that went before was
a preparation for the Passion, Death,
Resurrection, Ascension of Christ..
Everything that has happened afterward
has value only in as much as it extends
and applies the results of Christ*s re
demptive activity.
The essence of the Redemption is
God*s boundless love, for disobedient,
intransigent mankind. The message of
the Redemption is the perfect'balance
between suffering and happiness, sorrow^
and glory. The horror of the Crucifix
ion is in complete darkness; it can be
seen only because it is silouhetted by
the magnificent illumination of the
Ressurrection and Ascension. On the
hands and feet, brow and breast of the
Glorious, Risen Christ are the marks
of torment and the criminal*s death;
no glory without suffering.
These truths are deserving the art
istic eloquence of only the most del
icate poetry are worthily epitomized in
the Easter song changed at Easter Vigil:
"Truly meet it is and just, with all
our strength of mind and heart, and
with our voice as instrument, to praise
the invisible Father almighty, and His
only-begotten son,our Lord Jesus Christ
who paid to the eternal Father in our
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stead the debt of Adam, and with His
own blood shod for love of us erased
the ledger of ancient guilt.
For this is that Easter feast in
which the true Lamb is slain,whose
blood hallows the doorposts of the
faithful.
This is the night in which thou of
old didst lead our forefathers, the
Children of Israel, out of the land of
Egypt dry-shed through the Red Sea,
This is the night which scattered
the darkness of sin by means of a pillar
of fire.
This is the very night which deliv
ers all who believe in Christ from
worldly vice and from darkness of sin,(
which restores them to grace and makes
them co-sharers with the Saints.
This is the night in which Christ
burst the bonds of death and came forth
as Conqueror from the grave,For unless
we had been redeemed it would avail us
nothing to be born.
0 wondrous condescension of. thy
mercy toward us,
0 incomprehensible goodnass of love
to redeem a slave thou didst deliver up
a Son. •
0 truly necessary sin of Ad cm, which
the death of Christ has blotted out.
0 happy fault that merited a Redeeme^^
so holy and so great. .. .
0 truly blessed night, which alone
merited to know the time and hour when
Christ rose from the dead.
This is the night of which it is
written: the night shall be light as ,
the day; and then shall my night be
turned to day in my rejoicing] For the
holiness of this night drives out wick
edness and washes away guilt;it restores
innocence to the fallen and joy to the
sorrowful. It banishes enmities, est -
ablishes peace, and brings the low the
pride of tyrants.
0 truly blessed night -when Egypt was
dispoiled and Israel enriched.
0 night when Heaven is wedded to Earth
and God to man.11
ATTEND CHURCH THIS AND EVERY SUNDAY