When the apostles beheld their Lord again, they were filled with the same joy which overflows into the Easter liturgy. As Easter is but a figure of the eternal Pasch, the Church will experience a similar joy when, having with sorrow begotten souls to God, she sees Jesus once more, triumphant in heaven, at the end of time. “He will turn our sorrow into joy, which no man shall take from us.”

To possess that eternal joy, we must live in conformity with our name of Christians and observe the precepts which St. Peter enumerates in the Epistle.