{"id":3791,"date":"2015-05-14T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-12T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T09:55:50","slug":"post-easter-sundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxalbania.org\/2020\/en\/2015\/05\/14\/post-easter-sundays\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Easter Sundays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload cke-resize\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px; height: 194px; width: 200px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/dim-portar.chal.sch.gr\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12.jpg\" \/><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St Thomas Sunday: Antipascha<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Every day during the week of Easter, called <strong>Bright Week<\/strong> by the Church, the paschal services are celebrated in all their splendor. The Easter baptismal procession is repeated daily. The royal gates of the sanctuary remain open. The joy of the Resurrection and the gift of the Kingdom of eternal life continue to abound. Then, at the end of the week, on Saturday evening, the second Sunday after Easter is celebrated in remembrance of the appearance of Christ to the Apostle Thomas \u201cafter eight days\u201d (<em>Jn 20:26<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is important to note that the number eight has symbolical significance in both Jewish and Christian spiritual tradition. It signifies more than completion and fullness; it signifies the Kingdom of God and the life of the world to come since seven is the number of earthly time. The <strong>sabbath, the seventh day<\/strong>, is the blessed day of rest in this world, the final day of the week. The \u201cfirst day of the week,\u201d the day \u201cafter Sabbath\u201d; stressed in all of the gospels as the day of Christ\u2019s Resurrection (<em>Mk 16:1, Mt 28:1, Lk 24:1, Jn 20:1, 19<\/em>), is therefore also the eighth day,\u201d the day beyond the confines of this world, the day which stands for the life of the world to come, the day of the eternal rest of the Kingdom of God (see Hebrews 4). <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Sunday after Easter, called the Second Sunday, is thus the eighth day of the paschal celebration, the last day of <strong>Bright Week<\/strong>. It is therefore called the <strong>Antipascha<\/strong>, and it was only on this day in the early church that the newly-baptized Christians removed their robes and entered once again into the life of this world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the Church services the stress is on the Apostle Thomas\u2019 vision of Christ and the significance of the day comes to us in the words of the gospel:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then he said to Thomas, \u201cPut your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.\u201d Thomas answered him, \u201cMy Lord and my God!\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cHave you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe\u201d (John 20:27-29).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have not seen Christ with our physical eyes nor touched his risen body with our physical hands, yet in the Holy Spirit we have seen and touched and tasted the Word of Life (<em>1 Jn 1:1-4<\/em>), and so we believe. At each of the daily services until Ascension Day we sing the <strong>Easter Troparion<\/strong>. At each of the Sunday services beginning with Antipascha, we sing the Easter canon and hymns, and repeat the celebration of the \u201cfirst day of the week\u201d on which Christ rose from the dead. At all of the liturgies the epistle readings are taken from the <strong>Book of Acts<\/strong> telling us of the first Christians who lived in communion with the Risen Lord. All of the gospel readings are taken from the <strong>Gospel of St John<\/strong>, considered by many to be a gospel written particularly for those who are newly-baptized into the new life of the Kingdom of God through death and new birth in Christ, in the name of the Holy Trinity. The reason for this opinion is that all of the \u201c<strong>signs<\/strong>\u201d\u2014as the miracles in St John\u2019s Gospel are called\u2014deal with sacramental themes involving water: wine and bread. Thus, each of the Sundays after Thomas Sunday with the exception of the third, is dedicated to the memory of one of these \u201csigns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Myrrhbearing Women<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The third Sunday after Pascha is dedicated to the <strong>myrrhbearing women<\/strong> who cared for the body of the Saviour at his death and who were the first witnesses of his Resurrection. The three troparia of Holy Friday are sung once again and from the theme of the day:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The noble Joseph, when he had taken down Thy most pure body from the Tree, wrapped it in fine linen and anointed it with spices, and placed it in a new tomb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When Thou didst descend to death, O Life Immortal, Thou didst slay hell with the splendor of Thy Godhead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The angel came to the myrrhbearing women at the tomb and said: Myrrh is fitting for the dead, but Christ has shown Himself a stranger to corruption! So proclaim: The Lord is risen, granting the world great mercy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Paralytic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The fourth Sunday is dedicated to Christ\u2019s healing of the <strong>paralytic<\/strong> (<em>Jn 5<\/em>). The man is healed by Christ while waiting to be put down into the pool of water. Through baptism in the church we, too, are healed and saved by Christ for eternal life. Thus, in the church, we are told, together with the paralytic, to sin no more that nothing worse befall you\u201d (<em>Jn 5:14<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Feast of Mid-Pentecost<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the middle of this fourth week, the middle day between Easter and Pentecost is solemnly celebrated. It is called the feast of <strong>Mid-Pentecost<\/strong>, at which Christ, \u201cin the middle of the feast\u201d teaches men of his saving mission and offers to all \u201cthe waters of immortality\u201d (<em>Jn 7:14<\/em>). Again we are reminded of the Master\u2019s presence and his saving promise: \u201cIf anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink\u201d (<em>Jn 7:37<\/em>). We think also once again of our death and resurrection with Christ in our baptism, and our reception of the Holy Spirit from him in our chrismation. We \u201clook back to one, and anticipate the other\u201d as one of the hymns of the feast puts it. We know that we belong to that kingdom of the Risen Christ where \u201cthe Spirit and the Bride say, \u2018Come!\u2019 And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price\u201d (<em>Rev 22:17. Is 55:1<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the middle of the feast, O Saviour, fill my thirsting soul with the waters of godliness, as Thou didst cry unto all: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! O Christ God, Fountain of life, glory to Thee! (Troparion).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Christ God, the Creator and Master of all, cried to all in the midst of the feast of the law: Come and drink the water of immortality! We fall before Thee and faithfully cry: Grant us Thy bounties, for Thou art the Fountain of our life! (Kontakion)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Samaritan Woman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The fifth Sunday after Easter deals with the <strong>woman of Samaria<\/strong> with whom Christ spoke at Jacob\u2019s Well (<em>Jn 4<\/em>). Again the theme is the \u201cliving water\u201d and the recognition of Jesus as God\u2019s Messiah (<em>Jn 4:10-11; 25-26<\/em>). We are reminded of our new life in him, of our own drinking of the \u201cliving water,\u201d of our own true worship of God in the Christian messianic age \u201cin Spirit and in Truth\u201d (<em>Jn 4:23-24<\/em>). We see as well that salvation is offered to all: Jews and Gentiles, men and women, saints and sinners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Blind Man<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The sixth Sunday commemorates the healing of <strong>the man blind from birth<\/strong> (<em>Jn 9<\/em>). We are identified with that man who came to see and to believe in Jesus as the Son of God. The Lord has anointed our eyes with his own divine hands and washed them with the waters of our baptism (<strong>John 9:6-ll<\/strong>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jesus used clay of spittle and told the man to wash in the waters of Siloam. He did so because it was the Sabbath day on which spitting, clay-making and washing were strictly forbidden. By breaking these ritual laws of the Jews, Jesus showed that he is indeed the Lord of the Sabbath, and, as such, that he is equal to God the Father Who alone, according to Jewish tradition, works on the Sabbath day in running his world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is scandal over the healing of the blind man on the Sabbath day. He is separated from the synagogue because of his faith in Christ. The entire Church follows this man in his fate, knowing that it is those who do not see Jesus as the Lord who are really blind and still in their sins (<em>Jn 9:41<\/em>). The others have the light of life and can see and know the Son of God, for \u201cyou have seen him, and it is he who speaks to you\u201d (<em>Jn 9:37<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I come to Thee, O Christ, blind from birth in my spiritual eyes, and call to Thee in repentance: Thou art the most radiant Light of those in darkness! (Kontakion)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St Thomas Sunday: Antipascha &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Every day during the week of Easter, called Bright Week by the Church, the paschal services are celebrated in all their splendor. The Easter baptismal procession is repeated daily. The royal gates of the sanctuary remain open. 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