Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem

As some of you may know, one of my personal hobbies is designing liturgical books — especially Orders of Holy Mass and other texts for liturgical use. In the past, I relied on Microsoft Word to edit and compile these works. Recently, however, I have begun transitioning to LaTeX, a powerful typesetting system commonly used for theses, academic articles, and books. One of its greatest strengths is the ability to extend functionality through packages. To my delight, I discovered a LaTeX package specifically designed for liturgical use within the Church. It is called “liturg”, and can be easily added using this command: \usepackage{liturg} Until now, I have completed two projects using LaTeX: an Order of Holy Mass in Latin (Novus Ordo), and the Pre-1955 Good Friday Mass of the Presanctified. I have also set up a dedicated GitHub repository and a simple  dedicated website to host both the compiled PDFs and the TeX source files, so this will be my “Liturgical Database”.

Our faith is found in this Eastertide season, which is the embodiment of Incarnation, death and resurrection of God’s Divine Son for man’s sake. Do we believe that this is the greatest proof of love for us that even the almighty God could give? Yes, He has given it as we just celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. The Jesus we meet nowadays is the aliveness of the Risen Lord. All the Gospel accounts emphasize the “aliveness”, the aliveness of the Risen Lord. Now, what do I mean by aliveness? He walks; He eats; He touches; He talks; He shows affection; He responds to the situations according to the reality of the current situation; He talks about what people are doing and uses that present moment to move into the life of their heart. Because of the aliveness of the Risen Lord and as a necessary consequence from the act of divine love, I am sure that we are guaranteed our resurrection from this uncertain and challenging times. Today, in this Eastertide se...