On the occasion of the glorious feast of our Lord's Pascha, our primates and hierarchs from around the world sent epistles of joy to their faithful flocks.
Elena Alexandrova
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Here is the last turn of the queue, and I already see the wonderworking icon of St. Matrona straight ahead. All I had in my mind was an entreaty to God—to give health to my mother and to save her life!
For nearly two centuries, with this Paschal greeting we celebrate the greatest of all feasts, Christ’s Bright Resurrection!
Fr. Stephen Freeman
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In Orthodoxy, this imagery is the coin of the realm in the hymns surrounding Pascha. All of Holy Week is predicated on the notion of Christ descent into hell and radical actions of destroying death and setting free those held in captivity. St. John Chrysostom’s great Paschal Homily, read in every Orthodox Church on the night of Pascha, is an “alley, alley, in come free!” of salvation.