Some of the lines we heard from the sequence were: But that “finding” is a “nonsense finding” for us who knew in our hearts that Christ had risen indeed!īefore the Gospel was sung, we heard one of my favorite sequences, Victimae Paschali Laudes. They found the tomb of Jesus and His family. Just recently, an effort was made to prove that Jesus did not rise from the dead.

But Christianity is frequently still being attacked. Today, there is not much communism as there was in the past. In the past, communism frequently attacked Christianity. No matter what had been said to those people, they knew in their hearts the essential Gospel message that Christ had indeed risen. Then turning to the crowd, he dismissed them by saying: “CHRIST IS RISEN!” And the people passionately exclaimed as with one thundering voice: “HE IS RISEN INDEED!” (cf. The priest complimented him on his eloquence. So he turned the meeting to the parish priest. At the end of his talk, he was confident that he had convinced the crowd that they should reject Christ and embrace atheism. It took him a long time to convince the crowd. He attacked Christianity! He said some insulting words about Christianity. He went from Moscow to Kiev in 1930 to address a huge crowd.

There is a story told about a journey he took. And he took part in the Bolshevik Revolution the same year Our Lady appeared in Fatima in 1917. Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was one of the most powerful men on earth.

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