Fr Seraphim - Christ IS the Resurrection! Christ IS risen!

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CHRIST IS RISEN!

Christ is risen and He descends even into the depths of hell, so He may save those who are long dead and paralysed in their sinfulness, their rejection of Christ, their hatred for their own true humanity. Christ descends into hell itself so He may save those who have been long paralysed in their inability to even perceive Life, let alone partake of it in any way.

Even for those who have dissolved in this darkest of deaths, this darkest of voids - a void of self, a lack of will to exist, a return to the nothingness we are without His breath of Life - even for those Christ dies and He IS risen!

And if Christ is risen even for those, is He not risen for us? Is His Resurrection in any way dented or affected by the fact that we cannot be in a certain place, or go through a certain set of rituals, or sing a set of hymns? This Pascha we are pushed into the depths of our faith, we are forced to look closer, to listen more carefully to the voice of Christ - if we do it, we shall come out of this temptation much stronger and spiritually 'grown up' in our faith.

Christ IS risen not because of an act of will, in the way in which we understand will as a choice between 'to do' or 'not to do' something. Christ IS risen because Christ IS the Resurrection itself, and He can only be Who-He-Is. Christ IS risen, because His Resurrection is founded in His Love, and His Love never changes.

CHRIST IS RISEN, dear ones! May His Resurrection take over our hearts and never set them free again!

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