“What is the most important celebration of our faith, Christmas or Easter? Easter”. A dialogue with the faithful in St Peter’s Square marked the beginning of today’s audience, in which the Pope reflected on the Easter Triduum, which begins tomorrow, providing “insights into what the most important days of the liturgical year represent for us believers”. “When I was 15, I believed that it was Christmas”, Pope Francis revealed off the cuff, explaining that the most important Christian feast is “Easter, because it is the celebration of our salvation, the celebration of God’s love for us, the celebration of His Death and Resurrection. For this reason, I would like to reflect with you on this feast, on these days, which are the Easter days until the Lord’s Resurrection”. “They constitute the commemorative celebration of one great mystery: the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus”, Pope Francis said, recalling that “the Triduum begins tomorrow with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, and will end with the Vespers of Resurrection Sunday”. “Then comes Easter Monday for us to celebrate this great feast”, the Pope said off the cuff: “One more day, but this is post-liturgical, it is a feast for the family, a feast for society”. The Easter Triduum, for the Pope, “marks the fundamental stages of our faith and vocation in the world, and all Christians are called to live these three Holy Days – Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of course, but Saturday is the Resurrection – as, so to speak, the matrix of their personal and community life, just as the Exodus from Egypt is the matrix of our Jewish brothers’ and sisters’ lives”.