The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. (Phm.1:25)
CHRIST IS RISEN!
Christ is Risen!
Rejoice now and be glad, O Zion!
The Church addresses us today with a joyful greeting. The Church, which is the Body of Christ, calls us Zion. This is the place where God dwells.
God is with us, understand, O nations, and submit: for God is with us.
Today we feel and see God particularly clearly. We hear Easter hymns and rejoicings, and see our Savior Jesus Christ. This is God who became a man, so that each of us would receive the opportunity for deification and to become a god in Christ Jesus. Today and always we exclaim:
Having seen the resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus.
Surely, one may ask: How did you, Christians, see the Resurrection of Jesus Christ if He lived long before you were born? Even the Gospels say that no one saw the Resurrection of Jesus. Neither the apostles, who learned about it from the myrrh-bearing women, nor the myrrh-bearers themselves, who found the tomb of Christ empty?
The Venerable Simeon the New Theologian answers this question:
Does the church song want to teach us to tell lies?! God forbids! Stop the slander! On the contrary, we proclaim a perfect truth, reminding that Resurrection of Christ happens in each of us, the faithful. It is light-bearing and shining with the radiance of His Divinity and incorruptibility. The light-bearing presence of the Spirit shows the Resurrection of the Lord that has taken place in us. Even more, it gives us the grace to see the risen Christ the Lord Himself.
Therefore, we sing: God the Lord has appeared to us. Wishing to show his second coming, we add: blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. In whom the risen Christ has appeared, He is seen with spiritual eyes. For when Christ comes to us by the grace of the Holy Spirit, He raises us from the dead, as we were until then, and gives life, and makes us see Him alive in ourselves, immortal and incorruptible.
This is the reason for our Easter rejoicing. We are redeemed by the Cross of the Lord. We are forgiven by His incalculable mercy. By the Resurrection of Christ, we are restored to what we were deprived of in the fall. Now we have communion with God, our Creator and Heavenly Father. This is the true communion of love. Can there be a greater joy than the joy of communion with the One whom you love and with the One who is Himself the source of love? We rejoice that we were blind from birth and became sighted by Grace, were covered with leprosy and were cleansed, were cripples and now have become healthy. And all this was granted to us by the Resurrection of Christ!
Thus, let us dedicate our entire life to our Savior. Let us offer ourselves as a voluntary sacrifice to Him. Let us dedicate all our thoughts, feelings and movements to Him, so that our human nature does not become an obstacle on the path of the inexhaustible Grace of God in our hearts, does not become an obstacle on the path of the Living Water, flowing into eternal life (John 4:14).
To Jesus Christ, our Lord, Glory forever!
Christ is truly risen!
Archpriest Andrii Kudriavtsev
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