The Sacred Triduum is behind us, with its shadows, deprivation and purifying lamentation. Renewed, we now enter a liturgical season of light and joy. Our Easter Sunday celebration changes from the usual sprinkling rite with penitential hyssop in the Asperges to reveling in the newly blessed Easter water. In the Vidi aquam we are washed by the water and blood that gushed from Christ’s side, a fulfilment of the prefiguring blood and water that flowed from the Temple’s altar out of the side of the mount. If Christ is the new three-day risen Temple (John 2:19), then His spear-ripped Sacred Heart is its new altar.