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He is Risen! It's Easter Sunday!
Easter | Swordmaker

Posted on 04/07/2007 11:59:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker

He is Risen. Have a blessed Easter everyone.


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To: fkabuckeyesrule
The Paschal sermon of St John Chrysostom is read aloud in every Orthodox parish on the morning of the Great and Holy Pascha Jesus Christ.

According to the tradition of the Church, no one sits during the reading of St John's sermon, but all stand and listen with attentiveness.

(This always gives me the goose bumps)

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If any man be devout and loveth God,
Let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast!
If any man be a wise servant,
Let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.

If any have laboured long in fasting,
Let him how receive his recompense.
If any have wrought from the first hour,
Let him today receive his just reward.
If any have come at the third hour,
Let him with thankfulness keep the feast.
If any have arrived at the sixth hour,
Let him have no misgivings;
Because he shall in nowise be deprived therefore.
If any have delayed until the ninth hour,
Let him draw near, fearing nothing.
And if any have tarried even until the eleventh hour,
Let him, also, be not alarmed at his tardiness.

For the Lord, who is jealous of his honour,
Will accept the last even as the first.
He giveth rest unto him who cometh at the eleventh hour,
Even as unto him who hath wrought from the first hour.
And He showeth mercy upon the last,
And careth for the first;
And to the one He giveth,
And upon the other He bestoweth gifts.
And He both accepteth the deeds,
And welcometh the intention,
And honoureth the acts and praises the offering.

Wherefore, enter ye all into the joy of your Lord;
Receive your reward,
Both the first, and likewise the second.
You rich and poor together, hold high festival!
You sober and you heedless, honour the day!
Rejoice today, both you who have fasted
And you who have disregarded the fast. The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously.
The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
Enjoy ye all the feast of faith:
Receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness.

Let no one bewail his poverty,
For the universal Kingdom has been revealed.
Let no one weep for his iniquities,
For pardon has shown forth from the grave.
Let no one fear death,
For the Saviour's death has set us free.
He that was held prisoner of it has annihilated it.

By descending into Hell, He made Hell captive.
He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh.
And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry:
Hell, said he, was embittered
When it encountered Thee in the lower regions.

It was embittered, for it was abolished.
It was embittered, for it was mocked.
It was embittered, for it was slain.
It was embittered, for it was overthrown.
It was embittered, for it was fettered in chains.
It took a body, and met God face to face.
It took earth, and encountered Heaven.
It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen.

O Death, where is thy sting?
O Hell, where is thy victory?

Christ is risen, and thou art overthrown!
Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen!
Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is risen, and life reigns!
Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave.
For Christ, being risen from the dead,
Is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

To Him be glory and dominion Unto ages of ages. Amen.

61 posted on 04/08/2007 7:42:42 AM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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63 posted on 04/08/2007 7:58:39 AM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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To: don-o

You beat me to it! I was just getting ready to post this!

A Blessed Eastertide to you!


64 posted on 04/08/2007 8:04:18 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Swordmaker

Thank you Swordmaker, and a very happy and blessed Easter to you too! :)


65 posted on 04/08/2007 8:09:49 AM PDT by Graymatter (FREDeralist)
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To: Swordmaker

Happy Easter To All:

I think this day calls for another look/see at the Singing Nuns....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQdlBqQAQ1A


66 posted on 04/08/2007 8:40:19 AM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Swordmaker

HE IS RISEN INDEED!!


67 posted on 04/08/2007 8:49:03 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Blessings of the Season to you. And I love yer tag.


68 posted on 04/08/2007 8:52:31 AM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: Swordmaker

“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?” - Luke 24:5

A Blessed Happy Easter to all at FreeRepublic.


69 posted on 04/08/2007 9:26:35 AM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: AppyPappy
Actually, it doesn’t start until sunrise.

It's always sunrise somewhere.

70 posted on 04/08/2007 10:33:12 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: Swordmaker; rebuildus; Cortez; abigail2; HangFire; Lady Jenn; Outraged; Kithlyara; PRND21; ...
My annual addition to the Resurrection Sunday thread:
Seven Stanzas at Easter
from Telephone Poles and Other Poems by John Updike.


Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.


It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His Flesh: ours.


The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved heart
that — pierced — died, withered, paused, and then
regathered out of enduring Might
new strength to enclose.


Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.


The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
not a stone in a story,
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us
the wide light of day.


And if we will have an angel at the tomb,
make it a real angel,
weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair,
opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen
spun on a definite loom.


Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are
embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.

71 posted on 04/08/2007 12:24:31 PM PDT by AnnaZ (He is risen!)
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To: AnnaZ
Thanks for the ping J

Easter Blessings to you.

72 posted on 04/08/2007 12:29:21 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: sam_paine
I just realized that you're not on my pinglist, so pinging you now to the above.
73 posted on 04/08/2007 12:30:03 PM PDT by AnnaZ (He is risen!)
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To: AnnaZ

I’ll tell you what....I was pretty sure the stone was being rolled back this morning when a 10ft wide chunck of melting ice broke off and hit the roof!

I was risen, indeed!

(P.S. Went for a walk and the Easter bunny looks to have left me some “presents.”)


74 posted on 04/08/2007 12:48:25 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: All; AnnaZ

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Praise GOD that...
LOVE is the only reality and...
...GOD is LOVE..?

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75 posted on 04/08/2007 12:49:52 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Swordmaker
Truly He is Risen!

Happy Easter to all!



76 posted on 04/08/2007 12:54:50 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (Thank you Dear Lord.)
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To: sam_paine
I’ll tell you what....I was pretty sure the stone was being rolled back this morning when a 10ft wide chunck of melting ice broke off and hit the roof!

The Messiah may have opened the way for us to heaven, but, man, that global warming is hell.

xo!

77 posted on 04/08/2007 1:08:27 PM PDT by AnnaZ (He is risen!)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
All the best to you, Ronnie. Aloha!
78 posted on 04/08/2007 1:09:24 PM PDT by AnnaZ (He is risen!)
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To: Fiddlstix
Thank you. Be blessed!
79 posted on 04/08/2007 1:10:10 PM PDT by AnnaZ (He is risen!)
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To: AnnaZ

Happy Resurrection Day, Anna!!


80 posted on 04/08/2007 1:20:24 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT! http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx)
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