Archbishop Savva (Raevsky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Before Pascha, you heard the Gospel reading in which the Lord, not long before His suffering and death, visited the home of Simon the Leper in Bethany. One woman, filled with great love and gratitude to the Savior, brought a vessel of valuable oil and poured it onto the head and feet of the Savior, wiping them with her hair. The house was filled with its aroma. But the aroma of this love was interrupted by the stench of the greedy Judas.
Bishop Alexander (Mileant)
The Holy Myrrhbearing Women were in a similar situation. You will recall that even Peter, the most determined and courageous of Apostles, had renounced Christ only two days earlier, out of fear that a servant girl would report him. The other disciples of Christ, fearful of being arrested scattered abroad. When they met again to discuss what to do next, on the third day after Christ's crucifixion, they did it secretly "for fear of the Jews."
Fr. George Calciu
Rating: 9|Votes: 20
During Pascha of 1981, I was in the prison of Aiud. Early that morning, when the guards was changing shifts, I broke every diabolic rule of the prison by saying to the guard (one of the cruelest): “Christ is Risen!” He hesitated a few moments, in which, like lightening, I saw passing on his face the innocence of childhood, when his mama or grandma led him by the hand to church and when he heard the angelic voice of the priest saying: “Christ is Risen!”
Tatiana Kashina
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 3
Some forty miles from the busy commercial center of New York, next to the town of Nanuet, is the convent of Novo Diveevo, a monastery known throughout Orthodox America. Here is an original portrait of St Seraphim of Sarov, painted during his lifetime. People who have seen this portrait say that his gaze seems to pass right through their soul, illuminating its dark corners.
Rating: 2|Votes: 1
On May 14, 2013, the second Tuesday of Pascha, known as Radonitsa (“Day of Rejoicing”), the Paschal day of the commemoration of the dead, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated Divine Liturgy in Protection Church in the Chinese city of Harbin.
