Friday 18 May, 2012

Epistle Reading
Acts of the Apostles 15:5-12

Gospel Reading
John 10:17-28

Saints and Feasts

Holy Martyrs: Peter, Dionysius, Andrew, Paul, Christina, Heracles, Paulinus and Benedimus

Julian the Martyr

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His Eminence Paul Saliba Easter message - 2012


Unique and Holy day, king and Lord of days, feast of feasts... Thus the Orthodox Church sings at Matins for Easter.
Easter is therefore the centre and the heart of the Christian year. It is on this day that the whole Liturgical Cycle depends. Because it determines the movable feasts of the calendar.

St. Paul in 1 Corinthian wrote “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruit of those who have fallen asleep...”

The man today is not willing to accept the teaching of passion and resurrection, a God who suffer and die and rise for our sins, we are not interested about tomorrow and eternity, we want now and here. I want to escape from the everyday reality, yet, that may work for a short time, and we have to face reality. Herein lays the greatness of the Christian faith. It offers us not escape but victory.

It is known that only those have carried the Cross and have died with and for Christ will share in the grace of Holy Resurrection. Some faithful know that the grief of the Holy Friday is a necessary condition for the joy of Easter. Our Lord had revealed the triumph of His resurrection to His Apostles before his journey to Golgotha on Holy Friday and the joy of Easter.

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The Twelve Great Feasts of the Church

The Church year begins on September the 1st and the ecclesiastical year  is marked by many Feasts.
The greatest of all of these is "The Feast of the Resurrection of Christ" more usually called Pascha or Easter.
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