Christ is risen!

Христос Воскресе!

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

Thoughts on Pascha

• 1st Sunday of Pascha (Word DOC format)
1997
• 1st Sunday of Pascha (Word DOC format)
2003
• Holy Saturday (HTML format)
Great Saturday
2002
Also in Format: RTF
• Holy Saturday (RTF format)
• Condemned to Immortality: A meditation on the Resurrection
Archimandrite Justin Popovic
• The Three Visits of Mary Magdalene to the Tomb of Christ
Blessed Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky
• An ancient Homily on Pascha
The Lord's descent into the underworld
• HOLY WEEK AND PASCHA IN JERUSALEM
by the Monk Parthenius

From the Fathers

• Слово святого
Иоанна Златоуста
• Homily on Pascha
Melito, Bishop of Sardis
• Pascha! The Pascha of the Lord!
A portion of a homily of St. Gregory Nazianzen

Questions and Answers

• Bright Week
• The appearances of the risen Christ

Archpastoral Paschal Greetings

• Metropolitan Vitaly's Paschal Epistle - 2001
• Bishop KYRILL's Paschal Epistle - 2001
• Metropolitan Vitaly's Paschal Epistle - 2000
• Archbishop Hilaron's Paschal Epistle - 2000
• Metropolitan Vitaly's Paschal Epistle - 1998
• Metropolitan Vitaly's Paschal Epistle - 1997
• Metropolitan Vitaly's Paschal Epistle - 1996
• Metropolitan Philaret's Paschal Epistle - 1982
• Holy Archbishop John 's Paschal Epistle - 1956
• Metropolitan Anastassy's Paschal Epistle - 1940

Sister Churches

• Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Kyprianos - 2001
• Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Kyprianos - 2000
• Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Kyprianos - 1999
• The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2003

More Paschal Greetings

• PASCHAL EPISTLE
ARCHIMANDRITE VITALII (MAKSIMENKO), Father-Superior Of the Monastery Of Venerable Iov [Of Pochaev] In Vladimirovaya In the Carpathians - 1928

Prayers and Services

The Paschal Troparion: "Christ is risen from the dead..."

Double sided, 4 per side document suitable to print on regular paper, and cut into 4 equal cards. One side contains the original languages, and the other the English transliterations.

• RTF Format
• PDF format
• Original Languages
• English with transliterated Greek and Slavonic
• Original Languages side by side with transliterated Greek and Slavonic

"Thy Resurrection..", sung at the beginning of Paschal Matins
This Hymn is sung first softly, then progressively louder just before the beginning on Pascha matins, in the darkened church. The English and Slavonic text, and a convenient double sided card, in two printable formats, which parishioners can hold and use to sing during the Paschal procession.

• "Thy Resurrection"- HTML
• Double - sided card - PDF format
• Double - sided card - RTF format

Paschal Hours
These short prayers are sung during the Paschal vigil, and prescribed to replace the regular morning and evening prayers at home during bright week.

English

• PASCHAL Hours - HTML
• RTF Format, double sided, two per side, for printing as a convenient card
• PDF Format, double sided, two per side, for printing as a convenient card

Slavonic

• Pascha hours - Slavonic - html
• Pascha hours - Slavonic - RTF Format, double sided, two per side, for printing as a convenient card
• Pascha hours - Slavonic - PDF Format, double sided, two per side, for printing as a convenient card

The Paschal Stichera - Let God arise

• HTML
• Double sided, 2 per side "card" - RTF Format
• Double sided, 2 per side "card" - PDF Format

The Beginning of Paschal Services

• HTML
• Double sided, 2 per side "card" - RTF Format
• Double sided, 2 per side "card" - PDF Format
• Paschal Stichera - in Slavonic
• Paschal Canon - Slavonic
• Agape Vespers (PDF)

Audio

• Tropar of the Resurrection in Slavonic

Pascha Recipes

• Recipe for Jordanville Paskha - A Russian delicacy on Pascha

References

• Paschal Dates
Beginning of Great Lent, Pascha, for the coming years
• Calculation of the Date of Pascha

Miscellany

• The Pascha Basket Tradition
• The Paschal Egg
• Paschal Customs and Lore
• Radonitsa