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Kevin Basil

When I walk into an Orthodox Church… one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what Saint Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
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Reflections on Pascha

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Christ is risen!

In the Byzantine rite, Pascha is the central theme. It is a commonplace among liturgical scholars that the resurrection is the overwhelming theme of all Byzantine hymnography and liturgy. Everything in the rite revolves around the resurrection. The Pasch shines as a great light which illumines everything in the church: the songs, the prayers, the cycles: daily, weekly, yearly. So, “let us be illumined by the feast.”

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