It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, at all times to praise Thee, O Lord, but more gloriously especially this day when Christ our Pasch was sacrificed. For He is the true Lamb Who took away the sins of the world: Who by dying destroyed our death, and by rising again hath restored us to life.
(“Preface for Easter,” The Roman Catholic Daily Missal: 1962 [Kansas City, MO: Angelus Press, 2004], 873)
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That death could not hold him certainly implies that our Pasch was an acceptable sacrifice before God (the father), and that his own claims while he lived were true, since he predicted His own resurrection ([John 2:18-22][Matt 12:39-40][Matt 16:21][John 10:17-18]).
That Christ is risen is indeed great news!