Sts Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Institute
13 Apr 10: Всемирное Празднование Пасхи началось в Новой Зеландии – 4 апр. 2010г.
Христос Воскресе!
Из-за того, что в этом году день перехода на зимнее время был перенесен на первое воскресение апреля, прихожане и верующие Новой Зеландии начали всемирное празднование Светлого Воскресения Христова радостными восклицаниями «Христос Воскресе!» в полночь, когда в Анадыре и на Камчатке еще было 11 часов вечера, 9 вечера в епархиальном центре в Сиднее, середина субботнего дня в Москве, и всего лишь утро субботы в Нью Йорке. (more…)
12 Apr 10: Holy Saturday at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Strathfield – 3 April 2010, photoreport
5 Apr 10: Holy Saturday at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Strathfield – preview
A detailed photoreport will be forthcoming soon.
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3 Apr 10: Paschal Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
Paschal Epistle of His Eminence
HILARION,
Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York,
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
Now are all things filled with light: heaven and earth, and the nether regions…
Let all creation celebrate the arising of Christ,
in Whom we are established.
(Paschal Canon, Ode III)
Dear archpastors, pastors, monastics,
and all the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad!
CHRIST IS RISEN!
By the mercy of God we have reached the end of the period of the Great Fast, when we strove to purify our souls and thoughts by fasting and prayer, preparing ourselves for the great and triumphant feast of the Pascha of the Lord, the radiant Resurrection of Christ, the feast which the Holy Church calls the “Feast of feasts and Triumph of triumphs.” For Pascha is not only the commemoration of the most noteworthy event in the history of the world; it is the essence and meaning of our present and future life. (more…)