Dcn. Michael: "Who’s Lost that Paschal Feeling?"

Dcn. Michael:  "Who’s Lost that Paschal Feeling?"

For many of us today, the lull following Pascha seems almost unreal.  After more than a month of services and fasting in preparation and anticipation of Christianity’s holiest day, we too may feel a sense of loss.  Nothing matches the intensity of the Church activities leading up the Pascha Sunday Liturgy, making everything afterwards seem almost anticlimactic.  It just feels wrong not to be in a Church service or twofor every night of the week!  So, we may want to ask as well: Christ is risen—so what are we to do now?  

The Life of St. Mary of Egypt

The Life of St. Mary of Egypt

“…And only then, with great difficulty it began to dawn on me, and I began to understand the reason why I was prevented from being admitted to see the life-giving Cross. The word of salvation gently touched the eyes of my heart and revealed to me that it was my unclean life which barred the entrance to me. I began to weep and lament and beat my breast, and to sigh from the depths of my heart.”