From Fr. Angelo
Let Pascha Become Our Way of Life
As we are now fully immersed in the joy of Christ’s Resurrection as our promise of salvation it is vital for us to understand why this event, our Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection is so significant for not only us as Orthodox but for all of Christianity. In the Gospels Jesus spoke of being the good shepherd who knows His sheep and His sheep know Him and that He was sent for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but Jesus also said, “I have other sheep that are not of this fold and I must bring them also… and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” (John 10)
These “other sheep” are all who comes to know Jesus as the Way and the Truth of eternal salvation. This is the beautiful message of Pascha which we as Orthodox Christians, as a light unto the whole world, must proclaim to those we encounter, especially those who suffer in not knowing the peace that our Lord offers to all of us.
While the Christian faith can no more be expressed in the content of a single article as could the works of our savior Jesus Christ. “If every one of them were written down, not even the whole world would have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25), this shouldn’t stop us from being able to express some of the central themes of Christianity. So, in light of Christ’s glorious Resurrection let’s outline what Orthodoxy see as the Truth of a life in Christ…