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Posted by Nikolov on April 17, 2001, 21:28:20 "The Christ has created this day we to be happy on this day. Why? Because the secret of Christ's Resurrection reveals the secret and the meaning of the whole existence, the sense of the creation of the world and the man. And this means that we are created for life and not for death. The death is a consequence of the sin, which represents one big obstacle separating us from the God. That's why, the whole exceptional dead that the Godhead has done through the union of the three divine persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) in one, is comprised in removal of the obstacles that separates us from the God. The first obstacle is the sin of the nature. Here, God has removed the nature in its embodiment. The second obstacle is the sin of the people, which the God of Son removed it in its death and the third obstacle - death the God removed it with its resurrection. For this reason Apostle Paul says that the last enemy for destroy is the death. However, the bodily death in this world exists after the Christ's Resurrection. How to explain this? Yes, death exists, but the value of the Christ's Resurrection is not longer damnation, a fear, but it becomes temporary and ephemeral dream. The death now is the door to God's Kingdom, a passage to eternal life. Jesus Christ says, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." That's why Easter is named as Holy Pascha, which commemorated the death and resurrection of Christ which freed humanity from the bondage of death, sin and evil. The Christ is our Pascha, God's Lamb that took upon himself all sins in the world that sacrificed himself for the life of the world. In Old Testament people gave sacrifices to God. The Christ's sacrifice on the Cross differs from all Old Testament sacrifices. Since than, the Christians did not have give any sacrifices because it will mean negation and rejection of the Christ's victim. For that reason, our Church practises the only Holy sacrifice and that is not blood sacrifice, that is the Body and the Blood of the Our Saviour, Jesus Christ celebrating in every liturgy. All this Jesus Christ has given to us on the Last Supper, which is a sign of his constant presence here with us, until his Second Coming. For this reason God says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. He who eats My body and drinks My blood, he will have eternal lifeEe stays in Me and I in him." In this turmoil time, when we pass through difficult temptations, when terrorist groups disturb the peace here, we know that after the Cross the Resurrection follows. Let Christ's Resurrection be our faith and hope and that this resurrected joy will not be disturbed. We are resurrected already and we are to live with all our church and national dignity. The 2000th living of the Holy Church assure us that only the resurrection can provide constant and eternal victory over everything. Only the resurrection message gives us strength to wage real spiritual struggle: struggle against the sin, struggle against the lust, struggle against our spiritual reformation, and for unity. The strength of the Resurrected Christ and Our Saviour Jesus the Christ is helping us constantly.
Regarding the greatest Christian Holiday Christ's Resurrection - Easter, the Head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, His Beatitude Stefan sent peace and blessing from God to faithful children of the Macedonian Orthodox Church addressing them with this splendid and joyous greeting Christ has Risen! The message reads:
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