[Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae]

after the established laws, after the tormentors were sunk into the deep abyss, our Savior emerged laureated from the underworld. He sits joyful with the prince of all the blessed, that toga having proceeded, which the holy prophet seeing from afar says: "You also, by the blood of the covenant, have led forth the prisoners" Zechariah 9:11. For the whole Catholic Church throughout the whole world rejoices because Christ the Lord, the King, having broken the most strong forces of death, treading the underworld with his foot, released the wretched from punishment.

It was fitting, Jesus, that rising from the dead, glorious and immortal, not only for the consolation of your disciples to whom your death had brought much pain and sorrow, but also for the commendation of the divine justice, to whom it pertains to exalt those who have humbled themselves for God. It was most just that you, who for love and obedience humbled yourself even to death, should come to be exalted by a glorious resurrection. It was fitting, moreover, for the strengthening of our faith, which is much confirmed by your resurrection. Indeed, if you, good Jesus, had not risen from the dead, as the Apostle argues, our preaching would have been rendered vain, and our faith would be empty 1 Corinthians 15:14. It also pertains to the raising of our hope, since we do not doubt that we, as members of your body, will rise again when you, our head and light, rise again.