Christ is Risen!
Christ is Risen!
“That I may know Him
and the power of His
resurrection
and
the
fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His
death” (Philippians 3:10)
What a great love! For
our sake, our Lord Christ
endured the cruelest form
of death. He took our place
on the wood of the Cross.
Through His crucifixion,
our God has defeated all
darkness and evil. The
Savior gave us power to
be free from the bondage
of Satan. Resurrections
comes after suffering. As
our holy fathers taught us
there is no glory without
pain and there is no
resurrection without the
cross first. On the third
day, our Lord Christ rose
from the dead. We and
all Orthodox Christians
around the world celebrate
Christ’s resurrection.
The fathers of the church
direct
our
attention
that Resurrection is the
foundation for our salvation.
In
the
Resurrection,
our perspective of life
fundamentally changes. We
will neither lose hope nor
allow darkness to prevail
in our lives. When we allow
our Lord’s victory over
death enlighten our lives,
then we will experience joy
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and peace.
Our
beautiful
church
reminds us about our
resurrection in the second
coming. We pray in every
liturgy during the Creed “We
look for the resurrection
of the dead and the life of
age to come.” Throughout
our life, we ourselves
may overcome death, the
spiritual kind, by working
on praying, fasting, reading
the Holy Bible, living the
sacred sacraments, and
other means of spiritual
food. Our holy fathers ask
us to read the bible without
rush, but to think about
what we read and ask
God to open our hearts to
understand the scripture.
As a result, we build a
strong relationship with
Jesus Christ. May the
Lord Almighty help us
all to live in the joy of
resurrection, not only
during the Feast of
Resurrection, but every
day of our lives.