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Alive in Christ the Magazine of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania, Orthodox Church in America Volume XXIII, No Christ is Risen! Your Diocese Alive in Christ The Magazine of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania, Orthodox Church in America Volume XXIII, No. 1 Spring, 2006 S S t. p e T c i i k h a o l n’ s E d M i o t n i a o s n t e r y 100th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Monastery Church and Founding of the Well “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst” —John 4:14 P A S C H A 2 0 0 6 To the Venerable Pastors, God-loving Monastics and Devout Faithful of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania The day of resurrection, be illumined, you people, Pascha, the Pascha of the Lord. From death to life and from earth to heaven, Christ our God has brought us, singing a song of victory. (Paschal Canon, Ode I) Dearly Beloved in the Lord: The radiant day of the resurrection of Christ has risen upon us, shining with the light of the Lord’s victory over hell, corruption and death itself. His victory is also our victory, for by the divine Pascha of the Lord, we who are mortal and earthly have been brought from death to life and from earth to heaven. As we face a life that is so often fi lled with darkness, sorrow and temptation, it is easy to become discouraged, to lose hope and to waver in our faith. Our Lenten journey has offered each of us the opportunity to courageously rekindle that hope and that faith by laboring in the good spiritual effort of repentance, prayer and fasting. Now, having walked with Christ on the path to the Cross, we have received a share in His glory: Yesterday, O Christ, I was buried with Thee, and today I rise again with Thee, in Thy rising. Yesterday I was crucifi ed with Thee, now glorify me, O Savior, in Thy Kingdom (Paschal Canon, Ode III). The light and joy of the present feast are a clear and certain reminder that the Lord is ever with us, even in our darkest moments of pain and struggle. The Risen Christ Himself makes manifest to us the reality that there is no darkness that can overcome Him or those who are His children, for He is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world (John 1:9). As we celebrate the Feast of Feasts, let us all receive that light in our hearts and rejoice in the Lord with thanksgiving for His great victory, crying out: Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! +TIKHON, Bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania 1 Editor’s Note: We dedicate this issue to the 100th Anniversary of the celebration of the consecration of the St. Tikhon’s Monastery Church and celebration of the fi rst Divine Liturgy in that church. In this issue, we offer the continuing history of our beloved monastery as edifi cation for us, the heirs of this precious jewel. The quotation below is from future holy martyr, Archpriest Alexander Hotovitsky, who was a person who loved St. Tikhon’s Monastery. We place before our readers these beautiful words which St. Alexander addressed to the newly opened St. Tikhon’s Monastery but also speak to all of us, the faithful, today, as well as future generations. We feel these words are timely and prophetic for the Orthodox Church in America: “And let my word — the word of one who is not a monk — be a testimony to you of the hopes of all of us, that your fi rst stone was not founded on the ground of division, but on the ground of the desire to enhance the paths of the great spiritual deeds of this mission; that to you and your well-being are directed the well-wishes also, of those members of the American Church who, though not themselves called to walk the thorny path of monastic self-renunciation and struggle, yet according to their ability are glad to make their own feasible contribution to the effort of organizing the holy cloister, which is destined for high service to God and our fellow neighbor and for the preaching of God’s truth and love through word and deed.” —St. Alexander Hotovitsky, 1906 2 Your Diocese Alive in Christ Volume XXIII Number 1 Spring 2006 The Offi cial Magazine of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania Clergy Retreat - see page 56 Orthodox Church in America To our readers: We apologize for the lateness of this issue. It is the result of the special materials and necessary research on the history of St. Tikhon’s Monastery. In This Issue Paschal Message ................................................................................................. 1 Dedication ............................................................................................................. 2 Table of Contents ................................................................................................. 3 The Sunday of Orthodoxy ................................................................................ 4 All Saints Church Damaged by Fire ............................................................... 6 Winter Teen Retreat - page 21 Sermon on the Cross ........................................................................................... 7 Sermon for the Feast of the Annunciation .................................................. 10 The Apostolic Origins of African Christianity ............................................. 12 Bright Tuesday Celebration at St. Tikhon’s Monastery ............................ 18 St. Cyril, Bishop of Turov: Sermon on Pascha ............................................. 19 Your Diocese Alive in Christ St. Tikhon’s Winter Teen Retreat 2006 ............................................................ 21 Produced by the Publications Department of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania, Origen: the Denier of Human Freedom Part III .......................................... 25 Orthodox Church in America (Diocesan Orthodox Hierarchs Lead March for Life ....................................................... 34 Center, South Canaan, Pennsylvania 18459 (570-937-9040), under the direction of His The Founding of St. Tikhon’s Monastery - Part VI ..................................... 37 Grace, Bishop TIKHON. Editor ...................................Fr. John Kowalczyk “Preserve the Fullness of Thy Church” ........................................................... 56 Photography ............................... Martin Paluch Twelfth Annual Pre-Lenten Winter Festival ................................................. 59 Staff ....................................... Fr. David Mahaff ey Circulation ...................................... Mary Sernak We Believe: Symbol of the Faith - Part VIII .................................................... 62 Editorial and Subscription Offi ce: Alive in St. Cyril’s Commentary on John’s Gospel - Part XXII ................................. 64 Christ, Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania, Box 130, South Canaan, Pennsylvania 18459 Phone (res.): 570-876-1241. Departments Alive in Christ is distributed free of charge All in the Diocesan Family ................................................................................... 82 within the Diocese. Those living in other areas Daily Devotions ....................................................................................................... 75 may subscribe for $12 per year. Education Bulletin .................................................................................................. 21 Deadline for the next issue of Your Diocese Alive in Christ is July 15, 2006. Please submit Offi cial ......................................................................................................................... 5 all articles (typed) pictures, parish news, etc., on disc to Alive in Christ, Diocese of Eastern Pascha Listings ..................................................................................................... 76 Pennsylvania, Box 130, South Canaan, PA 18459, or e-mail to [email protected]. 3 The Sunday of Orthodoxy Homily Delivered on March 12, 2006, at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre By His Grace, TIKHON, Bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania n the Name of the Father, and of the lives that we will be granted that great gift Son, and of the Holy Spirit. of salvation. Glory be to Jesus Christ! We are all familiar with this idea that I Today, in this bright cathedral, every aspect of our life should be dedi- with much splendor and joy, we cele- cated to God and to our salvation. In fact, brate the joyous feast of the Triumph of we have just completed the First Week of Orthodoxy. As we process with the Holy Great Lent, which is one of the most in- Icons, we remember specifi cally the res- tense weeks of our liturgical life, and it is toration, in the year 787, of the veneration during this week that we have all, to the of icons, the victory of the iconophiles, extent that we are able, made a beginning the icon-lovers, over the iconoclasts, the in the path towards our salvation. Even if icon-smashers. But on another level, this we do not live in a monastery, we know present feast is a celebration of the vic- that the First Week of Great Lent is here. tory of the truth of Orthodoxy throughout We know because we begin to fast a little the entire history of the Church. And the more, to pray a little more attentively and truth of Orthodoxy is that our salvation is to attend a few more services such as the the Resurrection that we see depicted in to be found in our Lord Jesus Christ, Who Great Canon of Saint Andrew and the the holy icons, not only in the icons of the by nature possesses Divine and Eternal Liturgy of the Presanctifi ed Gifts. In all feast of Pascha, but in all the icons which Life, and by grace, grants us to partake of these ways, we are striving to show the present to us the Kingdom of Heaven
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