GREAT AND HOLY PASCHA - 05/01/16
Late Saturday evening, and “while it was still dark” into Sunday, our community gathered for the “Feast of Feast, and Holy Day of Holy Days”.
Christ is Risen! Христос Воскресе!
Χριστός Ανέστη! المسيحقام!
Ode 1 - Canon of Holy Pascha
It is the day of Resurrection, let us be illumined O ye people, Pascha, the Pascha of the Lord, from death unto Life and from earth unto Heaven has Christ our God led us singing the song of Victory! Let us purify our senses, and we shall behold Christ, radiant with the light ineffable of the Resurrection, and shall hear Him say in accents clear, rejoice as we sing the song of victory. For meet it is that the Heavens should rejoice, and that the earth should be glad, and the whole world, visible and invisible, should keep the feast, for Christ, the everlasting joy is Risen!
AGAPE VESPERS
At 12pm on Pascha Day, we gathered for the Agape Vespers, which were celebrated by Fr. David Vernak. During the Vespers we read the Gospel in English, German, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Pigeon (Solomon Islands dialect), Amharic (Ethiopian), Italian, Greek, and Latin. Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!