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...Lord, and He will lift your burdens and set you free. In the Lenten Fast, and in Confession, we look up at the Cross and over the horizon to the Day of the Resurrection. And in the light of that Paschal Morning, shining even into these Forty Days of fasting, we look into our hearts, and we recognize that Jesus Christ dwells in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is drawing us closer,...

...ly a historical fact, but an ongoing, continuous reality at work in His Church. He is constantly guiding and governing the Church. He is invoked at the beginning of every Divine Service outside of Pascha. Without the Holy Spirit, neither the Faith nor the Church would exist. Before His Passion, Christ told His apostles: "These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helpe...

... become all things for all people: our LIGHT, our HOPE, our JOY, our FRIEND, our SAVIOUR, and our LIFE! May you experience every Divine aspect in your renewed life in Him! On your behalf, I send PASCHAL greetings to His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios, Exarch of the Ecumenical Throne, all of our Very Reverend an...

...ce, Christ is among us! He is and always shall be! Dear Clergy and Faithful: I write to you on the threshold of the Great Fast, our annual forty-day journey to the great and happy Day of the Paschal Victory of Jesus Christ. I write to you out of my profound desire that you and I, in the Paschal Celebration, may enter into the joy of the Angels on that day. And so I take this opportunity ...

...and despair. And in His life, sin was vanquished by His Divine Innocence, and death was swallowed up by the infinite glory of His Divine Immortality. Let no one doubt the importance of this Day. Pascha is the foundation of every Feast. Pascha is the source of every Sunday. The fact of the physical Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the basis, the very charter, of Christianity. There can be no Chris...

...w into the courts of the Resurrected Christ, and the Body of His Church. When the Spirit descended upon the company of disciples in the Upper Room, at that brightest of Third Hours, the glory of Pascha gushed forth as a fountain into the desert of human events. The Church of God, the Body of Christ, was quickened that day, very much like the body of Adam was quickened by the breath of God in Par...

...joice and be glad in it! Today is the Day that is larger than twenty four hours. It cannot be contained by a single square on the calendar. This uncontainable, untamed and unrestrained nature of Pascha is due to the uncontainable nature of Christ, Himself, the Risen Lord. The Resurrection of Christ was beyond all expectation, even though this very event was prophesied repeatedly by the Prophet...