Christ is Risen!

The Resurrection of Christ is truly the most important event in human history and it is the heart of our faith.  It is the Resurrection of the Crucified and Resurrected Christ which the Apostles preached to the entire world.  Martyrs went to their death only in that they believed in this Resurrection.  The saints conquered the world solely because they preferred the Resurrection of Christ over all the rewards of the world.

It is our most important feast day, Pascha, which we commemorate liturgically more often than all the other feast days; every Sunday and even every day, as the Divine Liturgy itself is a symbol and witness to the Resurrection of Christ.

Since Christ was resurrected, then all will be resurrected, each one of us will be resurrected and those who have done good will arise from the tomb “to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.” (John 5:29)

There is no power in inert materialism and there is no power in the final turn of materialism – they are dead.  “Christ has Risen and life lives!”

We should not believe in eternal death as the atheists who resist the will of God and contemporary humanists taught and teach today, but in ETERNAL LIFE!

Let us arise, brothers and sisters, from our mental torpor and believe in the Resurrection of Christ, as it is the archetype of the resurrection of all!  Only with a firm belief in the Crucified and Resurrected Christ is death conquered and Life is celebrated!  The Lord Himself is the “resurrection and the life!” (John 11:25), who has vanquished death and established the triumph of the Heavenly Kingdom!

Воскресение Христово воистину главнейшее событие всей человеческой истории, и оно есть — самое сердце нашей веры. Апостолы проповедовали всему мiру именно Воскресение — Распятого и Воскресшего Христа. Мученики шли на смерть только потому, что верили в это Воскресение. Святые побеждали мiр только потому, что предпочли всем благам мiра Христово Воскресение.

Это и главнейший наш праздник — Пасха, которую мы богослужебно поминаем намного чаще всех других праздников — каждый воскресный день, и даже ежедневно, поскольку сама Божественная Литургия есть образ и свидетельство Воскресения Христова.

Если воскрес Христос, то воскреснут все, воскреснет каждый из нас — делавшие добро восстанут из гробов "в воскресение жизни, а делавшие зло — в воскресение осуждения" (Ин 5.29).

Нет власти мёртвого материализма, нет власти конечного рубежа материализма — смерти. "Воскрес Христос — и жизнь жительствует!"

Не в вечную смерть надлежит нам верить, как учили и учат богоборцы-атеисты и современные гуманисты, — а в ВЕЧНУЮ ЖИЗНЬ!

Truly, Christ is Risen!

+ (+Metropolitan Agafangel)
Pascha of Christ, Odessa, 2013

At approximately 5 PM on May 1, 2013,
Oleg Mikhaylovich Rodzianko passed away.

Eternal Memory!

Oleg Mikhaylovich Rodzianko was born on March 21, 1923, in the city of Pancevo (Kingdom of Serbia (Yugoslavia)) to a family of Russian emigrants, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Rodzianko and his wife Elizaveta Fedorovna, nee Baroness Meindorf. Brother of Bishop Vasiliy (Rodzianko). Arrived in the USA on October 5, 1949. Received US citizenship in 1955. Graduated from Cooper Union College in New York City in 1959 as a mechanical engineer, and later received a masters in machine art in 1962 from the Stevens Institute of Technology. Worked as an engineer from 1954-1959 in a manufacturing company. During these, years, he was active in the establishment of the Protection Church in Nyack, State of New York. From 1959-1991, he was a professor at the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. He participated in the founding of the cultural and charitable association “Otrada” (1965-1975) and was the association’s secretary and chairman (1973-1975). In 1980-1981, while on summer break, and as he was the chairman of the building committee, he was instrumental in the construction of a hall and school at the Nyack church. In 1991, he retired with the designation of Distinguished Professor. He was a member for many years of the Congress of Russian Americans (CRA) and the chairman of its election committee for nine years. For his active work in the parish, he was awarded three gramotas by the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA). He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is survived by his wife, Tatiana Alekseevna, nee Lopukhina.

«Множество народа, пришедшего на праздник, услышав, что Иисус идет в Иерусалим, взяли пальмовые ветви, вышли навстречу Ему и восклицали: «Осанна! Благословен грядущий во Имя Господне, Царь Израилев!»