The Bright Resurrection of Christ (Acts 1:1–8; Jn. 1:1–17)

Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha! From death to life the Lord has led us by His Resurrection. And so this Resurrection ”the angels sing in heaven”[1], beholding the radiance of the deified human nature in its foreordained glory in the person of the Lord the Redeemer—into whose likeness, by the power of His Resurrection, all who truly believe in Him and cleave to Him with their whole soul were destined to be transformed. Glory, O Lord, to Your most glorious Resurrection! The angels sing, rejoicing with us and foreseeing the filling of their own ranks; but grant us, O Lord, to glorify You, the Risen One, with a pure heart, seeing in Your Resurrection the cutting off of the corruption that consumes us, the planting of a new and most radiant life, and the dawn of the future eternal glory into which You have entered as forerunner by Your Resurrection for our sake. Not only human tongues, but even angelic ones are not capable of expressing Your inexpressible mercy toward us, O most gloriously Risen Lord!