Ksenia Isaeva
Rating: 3,8|Votes: 55
Russian artist Olga Shirnina (also known as 'klimbim') colors archive images of Romanov family.
Fr. Philip LeMasters
We will grow in our participation in the Savior’s victory over sin and death by humbly accepting the opportunities for serving Him that our lives, and the lives of those around us, present. Most of us need look no further than our own families, our parish, and our friends and acquaintances in order to discern quite clearly what God is calling us to do. If we want a Lord Who fits our preconceived notions and calls us to serve Him only in ways that we find convenient, pleasing, or easy, then we will fall into the idolatry of worshiping our own self-centered delusions.
Let us throw off forever this shameful fear and apathy and truly follow Christ in the example of the Myrrh-bearing Women. Let us leave from the fearful shadows and locked rooms and come out to meet Christ. If we do, we will find, like the Myrrh-bearing Women did, all of our fears banished, the stone rolled away and we will behold the bright and wondrous sepulcher of Christ.
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 9
It is time that Orthodox women became more closely acquainted with this exemplar of womanly virtues, whose prayers are especially to be invoked by those with wayward children and by wives desirous of sanctifying their unbelieving husbands.
Fr. Stelyios Muksuris
The Resurrection, we must remember, is not an event; it is a person, the One who replied prior to the raising of Lazarus: “I AM the resurrection and the life” (John 11.25). At Pascha, as at every liturgical celebration, we are not actually recalling a past event but inviting into our present reality, into the “here and now”, the eternal Son of God who rose from the dead in the past and will come in His glory in the future. We are not merely celebrating Christ’s resurrection with each other; we are celebrating His resurrection together with Him.