Christ God is Risen – Let Us Rejoice

Last year, during the Paschal season I  posted what is, to me, the quintessential Easter Song:
Christ God is Risen!
I hope you enjoy this little reprise!
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Paschal Message of Metropolitan Philip 2009

Paschal Greetings from Metropolitan PHILIP
“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one to His own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the [...]

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Paschal Message Metropolitan Jonah 2009

Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, on the occasion of the great feast of the Lord’s Pascha, 2009
Posted 04/18

Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!
To the Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics, and Faithful of The Orthodox Church in America
Dearly Beloved in Christ,
Beloved, let us greet one another with Paschal Joy, and exchange the [...]

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Archpastoral Paschal Message of His Grace Bishop Irinej of Australia and New Zealand

Archpastoral Paschal Message of His Grace Bishop Irinej of Australia and New Zealand
IRINEJ
BY THE GRACE OF GOD
THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX
BISHOP OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Addressing you: beloved monastics, clergy, all sons and daughters, the faithful spiritual children of our Holy Church, with a heart resounding and overflowing with joy in the victory of the inextinguishable light [...]

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Pascha 2009

The bright Pascha of our Lord has come again, and with it, the promise of our Lord’s Resurrection. On this day we celebrate what is actually a continuous series of actions by God to bring us back to him.
In the beginning, in the Garden, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God, as with a [...]

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Eastern Orthodox song – Slava tebje Gospodi

As our Paschal celebrations begin to wind down toward Pentecost, I present this: a video showing the horrors of the racial war in Kosovo – the destruction of the centuries-old Christian Churches, the rape of the land – and yet the joy of Pascha – the Resurrection of Christ – in the hearts of the [...]

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Christ is Risen! Beauty and Joy Collide!

This has to be one of the most joyous and beautiful Paschal folk-songs I’ve ever encountered!! Turn on your sound, sit back and enjoy!!

The words and music were written by St. Nikolai Velirimovic
Easter song performed by musical orchestra ”Stupovi” and various Serbian singers and celebrities, dedicated to the resurrection of [...]

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