Christ is risen! This Pascha is my victory at all times. Death is lurking around every time. It is death or the possibility of death. In this life, I have no salvation from death except in Jesus alone. How do I receive Him as Living and Life-Giving? This is the question of the feast; rather the question of the whole life. All of Christianity, in its details, is to know that Jesus alone is my life. If I place anyone ahead of Him, I reveal that I do not perceive what He had done in His Pascha. If he calls me to Him, I will not reach Him. This means that the feast does not consist of being relieved of a fast I had carried out for a well-known number of weeks, but rather, of always reconciling that, for me, God is first; He is my life, my wealth and my future; He is my relief in affliction, my comfort in my anguish, and the fullness of my happiness. In whatever circumstance, in God, I am strong; this is the enduring Pascha which Jesus wants to extend, through me, to the world. He is truly risen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christ is risen! This Pascha is my victory at all times. Death is lurking around every time. It is death or the possibility of death. In this life, I have no salvation from death except in Jesus alone. How do I receive Him as Living and Life-Giving? This is the question of the feast; rather ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1493,1252,394,1292,1376],"class_list":["post-8633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-faith","tag-orthodox-christianity","tag-pascha","tag-resurrection-of-christ","tag-spiritual-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}