+ Anastasios
Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania

 

    He “… suffered, was buried  and rose again” (The Creed)

    The feast of Pascha calls upon us to look again, from a different perspective, at the suffering that presses upon us, great or small, even unto death.

    Gazing at the Lord, Who “suffered, was buried and rose again”, experiencing our suffering in His company, in peace, we have a foretaste of the Resurrection’s manifold significance. May Christ also give us His power, so that we temper the sufferings of people around us through our faith in the Resurrection: Christ is Risen!

 

     Joyful Pascha!  

                                                              

Tirana, Easter 2011
With deep love in the Resurrected Christ,