Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece
The Holy Synod
To be read in Church
Protocol no. 2822
Paschal Message for 2019
“Come, receive ye light from the unwaning Light, and glorify Christ, Who is arisen from the dead.”
Beloved Fathers and Brethren, children in the Risen Lord:
On this radiant and glorious Feast of Feasts and Festival of Festivals, the Van- quisher of death, our Lord Jesus Christ, grants us the unwaning light of the Resurrec- tion and Life. He joyously calls upon us, in His Holy Church, not to lose heart, not to remain in the frigid darkness of the passions and of sin, but rather to light our candles from the tangible light that emanates from His All-Holy Sepulcher; and, first and foremost, to receive illumination in our souls by heartfelt participation in His trium- phant Resurrection. He invites us, in other words, to allow the effusion of light that has filled all things in Heaven, on earth, and beneath the earth to illumine us also, internally, with the Light of the Resurrection: