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Christ is Risen!

EPENDING ON Which Easter-calendar you’re on (I’m on the Gregorian one…) today is the leave-taking of Pascha, the last day of singing the hymns of Easter. If you’re a Byzantine-Rite user, today (or Next Wednesday if you’re into the Julian Easter) is liturgical supposed to be Just Like Pascha. It’s the [...]

Christ is Risen!

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up…
HE SUNDAY Of the Paralytic is the Fourth Sunday of Pascha in the Eastern Rite. We replace the RCL Gospel this Sunday with the story of the man at the pool [...]

Christ is Risen!

NLY ONE Week after the Resurrection and our readings for today (from the RCL) confront us with the two things we least want to hear about in church: money and doubt.
We have two layers of Church History here: The early church, we are told, received from each according to their ability [...]

(Reposted and updated a bit from last year)
Christ is Risen!
Ruth Gledhill asked Did Jesus really rise from the dead?.
It sparked a whole line of thought in my head and, what with (WR) Easter coming up in a couple of Sundays and (ER) Lent just getting off the ground, it seems like a logical time to [...]

Christ is Risen!

What happens when you cross the Paschal Troparion with far too many cultural references?

Christ is Risen!
OM WRIGHT Does an excellent job of pointing out the real meaning of Pascha – and the Reality of it. (Props to Bp Alan’s excellent tweet-feed.) Rising Rabbis and Future Eschatology and Transformation of the Present are all part of the Paschal Mystery. The modern church (and the secular world) misses [...]

Christ is Risen!
In the Eastern tradition, regular hourly prayers are suspended through bright week (from Pascha until the following Saturday). During that time the following Paschal Hours are read for all the “minor” hours – The midnight office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None and Compline – during the day (Matins, Vespers are also in [...]

A blessed observance of Holy Week to the Orthodox!

A good holiday to those who celebrate the Quartodeciman Feast of the Resurrection tonight – and/or last night! Christ is Risen!

A standard joke for the Orthodox is that they get to buy their Easter Candy at a discount price. My first Pascha at Holy Trinity Cathedral, I cleaned out the local Walgreens supply of remaindered Cadbury Eggs. The only problem being that most of the upscale goodies were gone.
Not any more!
Buy Chocolate Easter [...]