[Kolokotronis]

This is the sermon heard in all Orthodox Churches across the world at midnight last evening. Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tKexc4wSM

[Kolokotronis]

And in Serbia (almost the mother country!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd3t6sCygnE

[Claud]

A joyous Easter to everyone. He is Risen!

[Tax-chick]

Feliz Pascua, Uncle K., and all the Greeks at sea!

[RightWingMama]

Christ is Risen!

[left that other site]

A Blessed Easter to our Eastern Orthodox FRiends.

Christ is Risen!

[Biggirl]

For my Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters, a good and blessed Happy Easter!

[NRx]

Christ is Risen!

[Bridesheadfan]

The Eastern tradition is so beautiful and filled with the spirit of Christ.

[lightman]

Christ is risen! And you, o death, are annihilated! Christ is risen! And the evil ones are cast down! Christ is risen! And the angels rejoice! Christ is risen! And life is liberated! Christ is risen! And the tomb is emptied of its dead; for Christ having risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Our Priest uses as different language for the Paschal Greeting words of each of these final phrases, ie "Christos Anesi! And life is liberated"

We heard those grand words in Greek, Slavonic, and Arabic.

[lightman]

From the Catechetical lectures of +Cyril of Jerusalem:

O strange and wonderful event!
We were not really put to death,
we were not really buried,
we were not really crucified,
we were not really brought back to life.
But, though the imitation was symbolic,
the salvation is very real!

Christ was truly crucified,
truly buried,
truly raised up.
And all this was given to us by a grace
in order that we might share his sufferings by imitating them,
and thus truly obtain salvation.
How vast God’s love for humanity.
Christ had his utterly pure hands pierced by the nails he suffered;
and yet it is to me,
who share in his sufferings without suffering or experiencing pain,
that he gives the grace of salvation.

[toothfairy86]

Indeed He is Risen!