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Kevin Basil

“The more I study the history of the Orthodox Church in this country, the more I am convinced that our work here is God's work; that God himself is helping us; that when it seems as though everything we do is ready to fail, …on the contrary, it not only does not die, but grows in new strength and brilliance.” [said just before leaving the United States for Russia]
Saint Tikhon, enlightener of America

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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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