{"id":34542,"date":"2017-04-16T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34542"},"modified":"2017-04-16T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T16:06:35","slug":"blessed-easter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/blessed-easter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Resurrection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34543 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Resurrection-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Resurrection-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Holy-Resurrection.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dear friends in Christ: today, right now, we realize that our lives are filled with Divine meaning. Our personal stories are a part of a much bigger narrative. Your life, my life \u2014 our lives are all a part of the story of the family of God and the history of salvation. Jesus Christ is the point of unity and completeness in God.<\/p>\n<p>In the First Ode of the Canon of Pascha, we read (sing):<\/p>\n<p>It is the day of Resurrection! O people, let us be enlightened by it.<br \/>\nThe Passover is the Lord&#8217;s Passover,<br \/>\nsnce Chrits our God has brought us from death to life,<br \/>\nand from earth to heaven,<br \/>\nTherefore we sing the hymn of victory!<br \/>\nCHRIST IS RISEN FRM THE DEAD!<br \/>\nLet us cleanse our sense that we may see the risen Christ,<br \/>\nin the glory of the Resurrection and clearly hear Him greetinbg us:<br \/>\nRejoice! as we sing the hymn of victory!<br \/>\nCHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD!<br \/>\nLet the heaves properly rejoice and let the earth be glad;<br \/>\nand let the whole visible and invisble world celebrate,<br \/>\nfor Christ, our everlastng joy, is rosen!<br \/>\nCHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD!<br \/>\nIt is the day of Resurrection! O people, let us be enlightened by it.<br \/>\nThe Passover is the Lord&#8217;s Passover,<br \/>\nsnce Chrits our God has brought us from death to life,<br \/>\nand from earth to heaven,<br \/>\nTherefore we sing the hymn of victory!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Easter!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends in Christ: today, right now, we realize that our lives are filled with Divine meaning. Our personal stories are a part of a much bigger narrative. Your life, my life \u2014 our lives are all a part of the story of the family of God and the history of salvation. Jesus Christ is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/blessed-easter-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Easter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34544,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542\/revisions\/34544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}