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4th Sunday of Pascha - Sunday of the Paralytic
May 23, 2013
4th Sunday of Pascha - Sunday of the Paralytic

Christ is Risen!

Fr. John Erickson will serve Divine Liturgy at the mission this Sunday at 9:30am.  Please join us also for Matins at 8am, and for our agape meal following services. Please take a look at the calendar for the schedule of services for upcoming weeks.

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The Paschal Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon
April 30, 2013
The Paschal Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon

The Paschal Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, is now available on the web site of the Orthodox Church in America.  The original English text, which appears below, also is available in PDF format, as are translations into Albanian, Bulgarian, French, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

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The Paschal Sermon
Great & Holy Pascha

If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.

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Christ's Death: A Rescue Mission, Not a Payment for Sins
Christ's Death: A Rescue Mission, Not a Payment for Sins

Every day, Christians pray "deliver us from evil," not knowing that the Greek original reads "the evil," that is, "the evil one." The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins. The whole drama takes place between Him and the Father, and there's no role for the evil one.

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About the Orthodox Church
About the Orthodox Church

Historically, the contemporary Orthodox church stands in direct continuity with the earliest Christian communities founded in regions of the Eastern Mediterranean by the apostles of Jesus. The Orthodox Christian Church, also sometimes called the Eastern Church, or the Greek Orthodox Church, claims to have preserved the original and apostolic Christian faith. Figures for its worldwide membership are estimated at around 200 million.

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