He lives

"Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies," --Benedict XVI

In the midnight Easter service, the church is dark, and then one candle is lit, signifying that Christ has arose from the dead and is alive. The flame is then passed to another candle, and then another, until the entire church is aflame with hundreds of candles, each held by a Christian, signifying that all of us have the light of Christ in our own hearts, and that he lives in us...

the song is an Orthodox hymn: alas, due to arguments on how to calculate Easter, their feast is next Sunday. 

But joyful Easter to the rest of Christendom.