Quod si mysticam quoque vos in his rationem audire delectat, primo mense anni, qui etiam mensis novorum dictus est, pascha facere iubemur; quia renovato ad amorem caelestium spiritu mentis nostrae sacramenta Dominicae resurrectionis et ereptionis nostrae celebrare debemus, tertia eiusdem mensis septimana facere praecipimur; quia ante Legem et sub Lege promissus, tertio tempore saeculi cum gratia venit ipse qui pascha nostrum immolaretur Christus: quia tertia post immolationem suae passionis die resurgens a mortuis, hanc Dominicam vocari, et in ea nos annuatim paschalia eiusdem resurrectionis voluit festa celebrare: quia nos quoque ita solum veraciter eius sollemnia celebramus, si per fidem spem et caritatem pascha, id est, transitum de hoc mundo ad Patrem, cum illo facere curamus.
Now if it like you to hear also the mystical reason hereof, in the first month of the year, which is also called the month of new growth, we are commanded to keep Easter; because being renewed in the spirit of our mind toward the love of heavenly things we ought to celebrate the mysteries of the Lords resurrection and our deliverance, we are bidden to do so in the third week of the said month; because Christ Himself, being promised before the Law and under the Law, came with grace in the third age of the world to be our Passover sacrificed for us: because rising from the dead the third day after the sacrifice of His passion, He would have this day to be called the day of the Lord, and have us celebrate yearly on that day the Easter festival of His resurrection: because we also do in this manner only truly keep His solemn festival, if we endeavour to make along with Him the Passover (that is to say, our passage out of this world to the Father) by faith, hope and charity.
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