Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)
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Actually, in terms of reason, what these weak women wanted to do was not only impossible, but was just a mad risk. And yet they went anyway. How? Why? What powerful force was drawing them? This force was the Word of God expressed in the Law of Moses. And fulfilling what was for them a holy law, they bought perfumes and went to anoint Him. This required their conscience.
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
"O ointment-bearing women why have you come to the tomb? Why do you seek the living among the dead? Take courage for the Lord has risen!" Thus spoke the radiant angel.
Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)
Rating: 7|Votes: 2
People say: if we had seen Him we would not have denied Him. This is not true: the majority of those who denied Him had seen Him, and they denied Him because they did not love spiritual values, and the victory over the devil spoke but little to their hearts; they desired external success.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral)
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The feast of feasts and triumph of triumphs has arrived for us, brother archpastors, right honorable fathers, brethren and sisters beloved in the Lord! Let us all greet the Resurrection of Christ and not hide our feelings: "Let us be divinely glad, for Christ hath risen as One omnipotent.
