Pascha

A Pascha of Incorruption

A Pascha of Incorruption

05 April 2010

Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky)

Listen to the triumphant hymns of the Church! Not on the day of Holy Pascha alone, but on all the great fests you will frequently hear the word “incorruption.” The entire matter of the salvation of ...

Christ is Risen!

Christ is Risen!

04 April 2010

Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

All Christianity, therefore, is the experience of faith repeated again and again as if for the first time, through its incarnation in rites, words, music, and colors. To the unbeliever, it may indeed ...

Pascha – The Brightest Night

03 April 2010

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

The most-bright night of Pascha is the only night in the year when we are all in church, the night on which no Orthodox would think of staying home, as long as he is physically able to stand. The ...

Why is Pascha usually celebrated on a different date from the Western Christians?

23 April 2009

Archpriest John Moses

As seen above, the formula for the computation of the date of Pascha was set forth originally at the First Ecumenical Council, held at Nicea in 325 A.D. From the formula, we can look at a number of ...

It IS Pascha not Easter!

21 April 2009

Archpriest Michael Harper

Orthodox believers living in the West have always been under pressure in all directions to conform to western ways, ideas and practices. There is nothing new in this. The Crusades were the worst and ...

The Truth of Pascha

21 April 2009

A friend gave me a striking comparison the other day. Do you know how the police and investigators learn how to spot counterfeit bills? They meticulously study every aspect of genuine currency. They ...

We Await the Paschal Service All Year…

We Await the Paschal Service All Year…

20 April 2009

Fr. Dimitry Turkin

The Paschal service is special; there is no doubt about that. It is always distressing that this service can pass by in a single moment, as quick as lightning. The Paschal service appears on our ...

The Fire of the Resurrection

19 April 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

Created as a unique person, yet like everyone "called to be a saint," what will I do in response to His love? I will urge my heart to love God. I will focus on the reasons for this love, ...

Paschal Sermon

18 April 2009

Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery (+1976)

In these times in which we are living, filled with many sorrows, the only comfort for all of us is our holy Faith, with its lofty promises, radiant hope, its expectations which bring peace to the ...

Pascha (Easter) in Dachau

07 May 2008

Gleb Alexandrovitch Rahr

In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945. Greek and Serbian priests together with a Serbian deacon adorned the ...

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