Easter egg

  • When I wrote this post, on Pascha Sun­day of 2008, I was qui­etly amazed over a pre­cious lit­tle find on my daily walk. Then, as now, lit­tle things help me work my way through the larger truth of Pascha.

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    The reign of life has begun, the tyranny of death is ended … This is the day the Lord has made — a day far dif­fer­ent from those made when the world was first cre­ated, and which are mea­sured by the pas­sage of time. This is the begin­ning of a new cre­ation. On this day, as the prophet says, God makes a new heaven and a new earth.

    St. Gre­gory of Nyssa

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    I’m sorry I haven’t been say­ing much recently. As Mimi says, the work lead­ing up to Pascha has been tak­ing up a lot of spare time.

    And it’s been tak­ing up the kind of reflec­tive time that leads me to want to muse “out loud” in this space. Most of my abil­ity to turn things over and look at them has been put try­ing to wrap my mind around a frac­tion of what’s been said in the ser­vices dur­ing Holy Week. It’s enough to keep you busy for the rest of your life, really. This is the entire Gospel in the palm of your hand. This is all the hopes and dreams of human­ity re-enacted in a sin­gle night — the nar­ra­tive that rev­o­lu­tion­ized our his­tory that can be told in small words that any­one can understand.

    But it’s like the robin’s eggshell that I found yes­ter­day on my walk, with its lit­tle inhab­i­tant off some­where doing bet­ter things — sim­ple, del­i­cate, beau­ti­ful, but also pro­found, mys­te­ri­ous and wonderful.

    Christ is Risen!


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    April 24th, 2012 | Grace | 9 Comments |

9 Responses and Counting...

  • –C 04.24.2012

    Indeed, he is risen!

  • Tanya

    Христос Воскресе!

  • Mimi

    Indeed He is Risen!

  • Eliz­a­beth

    He is Risen indeed !
    A joy­ous and Blessed Pascha and Bright Week to you !

  • Grace

    Blessed Pascha, everyone!

    Tanya — I’ll just have to take your word for it. ;-)

  • Michelle Mela­nia

    Indeed He is Risen!!

  • DebD

    Indeed He is Risen!

    Thanks so much for the St. Gre­gory quote… its perfect.

  • Joseph

    Con­grat­u­la­tions. You’ve been nom­i­nated for an East­ern Chris­t­ian Blog Award in numer­ous cat­e­gories. Vot­ing will start the first week of May.
    http://ecawards.blogspot.com/

  • Grace

    Joseph:
    Well, what do you know about that? Hur­rah! I didn’t even know we had our own blog awards. That’s so … now.

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