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Dear Parish Faithful,
CHRIST IS RISEN! INDEED HE IS RISEN!
Wherefore, enter you all into the joy of your Lord; and receive your reward, both the first, and likewise the second. You rich and poor together, hold high festival. You sober and you heedless, honor the day. Rejoice today, both you who have fasted and you who have disregarded the fast. The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
- St. John Chrysostom
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I believe that we are all familiar with the Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom: Its rhetorical splendor through which the depth on St. John's images and scriptural allusions deliver the Gospel of Life as revealed in the Lord's Resurrection from the dead. This mere fragment from the Homily (read in the church during the Paschal Matins) is enough to remind of us of the fact that a parish priest will not "dare" deliver a homily of his own on Pascha!
