Source: OCAChristos anesti! Alleluia!
While Catholics celebrated Pascha last weekend, the Orthodox are celebrating it this weekend. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches celebrate Pascha on different dates because of their use of the Gregorian and Julian calendars, respectively.
For Catholics, as I noted earlier, this is the second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy Sunday, instituted as a feast for the Universal Church by Pope John Paul II in 2000.
While there is some dispute about the origin of the word "Easter" in English, in Latin countries and most Orthodox countries, some variation of Pascha is used. Pascha means "Passover," and ties the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Jewish Passover, through which the Jews were liberated from bondage in Egypt. Christ is the Passover Lamb, who saves men from the bondage of sin and the dominion of death and the devil. (Hence the question by Mary, the Blessed Mother of God in The Passion of the Christ, "Why is this night different from all others?")
Proclamation by Bartholomew, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Message of Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (includes both text and audio files).
The greetings of Archbishop Herman of the OCA.
Holy Week photos from St. Vladimir's Seminary.
Maybe I'll post some other pics later.
1 comment:
Happy Pascha! He is truly risen!
Thanks for the pictures from St. V's - used to go there for vespers from time to time when I lived in the Bronx.
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