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Index Holy Pascha 2006: The Feast of Feasts of Advertisers “Thanks be to God, Who gives life to those in the tombs. A suffer unto death, even unto death A Friend 17 us the victory through our Lord vibrant depiction of this victory is on a Cross. As a result, our sins A.K.T. Development 20 Christ (I Corinthians 15.57).” the Holy of the Anastasis have been remitted, and we have American Hellenic Institute 16 (Resurrection) displayed through- been granted eternal life with Him Anton, Arthur Mr & Mrs 6 Beloved Brothers and Sisters in out the Paschal period in our Who is risen from the dead. Archangels Greek Orthodox Christ, on this great and glorious churches. This Holy Icon depicts My beloved Christians, of CT 9 day of the the Risen Christ raising Adam and Through Christ, the sting of death Aroma Coffee Co., Inc. 8 Christ from the dead, the Feast of Eve from the grave, a symbolic has been rendered venomless. 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On this glorious Condakes, Leo & Evanthia 11 great clarity, for today the Risen the victory which has been given to day of the Resurrection of the Corcoran Group 18 Christ has triumphed over sin, evil us by God through Jesus Christ Lord Jesus Christ, let us be mind- Doundoulakis, Dr. James H 4 and death. was, in essence, in fulfillment of ful of the greatness of God, and let Gianakos, Nancy E., Esq. 10 Our expression of thanksgiving Old Testament prophecies. God us be attuned to the natural yearn- Greek Orthodox to God for His greatness is a declared through the Prophet ing of our souls to offer Him Archdiocese of America 2 defining hallmark of Pascha. One Hosea, “I will redeem them from unceasing praise for the victory H.A.N.A.C., Inc. 14 such expression of our thanks for death. Where is your victory, He has given us through Jesus Hellenic American His greatness is revealed in the death? Where is your sting, Hades Christ on this day. 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He does this to ciful God has continually loved us tion: “Thanks be to God, Who Esqs. 10 day of Pascha, is one of ultimate pass the saying that is written, affirm the continuity of this tri- from the dawn of our existence; gives us the victory through our Leadership 100 7 victory; namely, the total reversal 'Death is swallowed up in victory. umph and truth, and to categori- that it had always been His will to Lord Jesus Christ (15.57).” Manolakis, Michael N, Esq 14 of the devil's power upon the fate O death, where is thy victory? O cally declare the determinative restore humanity from its fallen Christos Anesti! Truly, the Marathon Payroll Services 10 of human beings, which was death, where is thy sting' (I nature of Christ's victory over condition to a condition of ever- Lord is Risen! 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We have entered Paradise, Seacoast Motors 6 without sin. of sins. discussions and decisions, we are first and and we must facilitate all who want to enter Senator & Mrs. Paul Sarbanes11 This glorious Feast of Feasts and Festival Let us forgive all things in the Resurrec- foremost citizens of Paradise. We are oblig- into the mystical Supper of the Lamb. State Senator & Mrs Leonidas of Festivals declares to the entire world the tion. What injury can not be forgiven, now ed to open our hearts to extend love and We pray that all of our and faith- Raptakis 8 victory and exaltation of the Lord and King that we have been given the antidote against care to all, even to the least of our brothers ful, who have received this Light, Jesus The AHEPA Family 16 of Glory, Who emerges from the depths of death? What enemy can threaten us? What and sisters of the human race. 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200103/665 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 22, 2006 Easter 2006 3 The : Great Miracle Given by God The Lord's Descent Only to the Orthodox Church to Hades By N.P. Vassiliadis arms in a beseeching manner. By Irene Econimides Behind them, and a little high- The joyous event of the glori- er, is St. John the Baptist, the ous Resurrection is expressed in Forerunner, who is pointing to The Ceremony of the Holy Fire Orthodox Iconography with the and indicating the Lord. Behind in Jerusalem takes place in the Icon of the Lord's Descent to St. John is the righteous Abel (the Orthodox Church of the Resurrec- Hades. Although there are various son of Adam, who was murdered tion in Jerusalem in such a way versions of this Icon, in essence, by Cain, his brother). Abel is which bewilders the souls of many they all depict the Lord's rescuing depicted as a young, beardless Christians. of the righteous souls from Hades man with a long shepherd's staff On , at noon, during His entombment on the and an ecstatic expression. In the the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, or Great and . dark cave of Hades can be seen any other Greek Orthodox Arch- In this Icon, the Lord is depict- the “locks of death,” the age-old bishop, enters the Holy Sepulcher, ed with bright garments within a bars and chains which held the recites special prayers and transparent and interrupted circu- dead captive, smashed by the remains waiting. Sometimes the lar glory which follows the contour power of the Resurrection. waiting is long, sometimes short. of the cross-engravened crown of At the top of the Icon, two In the darkened Church, the light around His head. The glory is angels are bending over the craggy crowd continually repeats with faintly noticeable above His head. peaks and are sharing in the tri- one voice and one heart: “Kyrie The Lord, having descended into umph of the ultimate victory of the Eleison (Lord Have Mercy).” At a Hades with Divine Authority, is God-Man (theanthropos), Jesus certain moment the Holy Light, in seen with a firm footing and a Christ. a supernatural way, flashes mirac- powerful stance upon the gates of ulously from the depth of the Holy Hades, which have fallen in the From “The Mystery of Death,” Sepulcher and lights up the little shape of a cross beneath His feet. by the Orthodox Brotherhood of lamp of olive oil put on the edge of In His left hand, Christ is holding Theologians (The Savior) in it. The Patriarch (or the Archbish- the Life-Giving Cross, the symbol Athens, Greece. op), after having read some of victory. prayers, lights up the two clusters With His of 33 candles he is holding, and right hand begins to distribute the Holy Light (the mark of to the multitude of pilgrims, who the nails is receive it with great emotion, clearly visible accompanied with the pealing of here as well as bells, acclamations and unbridled on His feet) enthusiasm. ASSOCIATED PRESS Christ is rais- The Holy Fire is not only dis- Christian Orthodox worshippers pass candles to fellow worshippers in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher ing Adam out tributed by the Greek Orthodox in Jerusalem where tradition says Jesus was crucified and buried, during the Holy Fire ceremony, in this of the depths Patriarch, but also operates by April 30, 2005 file photo. The "holy fire" of Orthodox Easter often illuminates something that no one ven- of Hades. itself. It is emitted from the Holy erates: the messy overlap of religion, rivalries and politics in the Holy Land. Adam sym- Sepulcher, having a gleam or hue bolizes the completely different from that of on their part to light them. Holy Sepulcher, The Greek Ortho- split” as they enter the Church). human race, natural light. It sparkles and flash- This divine light also presents dox Patriarch was standing sorrow- The appearance of the Holy with a vigor- es like lightning; it flies like a dove some peculiarities: As soon as it fully with his flock at the exit of the Fire is an event which occurs every ous and uni- around the tabernacle of the Holy appears, it has a bluish hue and Church, near the left column, when year in front of thousands of visu- lateral Sepulcher, and lights up the unlit does not burn. At the first the Holy Light appeared and split al witnesses. Nobody can deny it. motion. As a lamps of olive oil hanging in front moments of its appearance, if it the column vertically and flashed On the contrary, this miracle can result of this of it. It whirls from one side of the touches the face, mouth or hands, near the Orthodox Patriarch. reinforce those who need help movement, Church to the other. It enters into it does not burn. This is proof of A Moslem Muezin, called with their unbelief. the garment some of the chapels inside the its divine and supernatural origin. Tounom, who saw the miraculous There have recently been some of the tri- Church (e.g., the chapel of the We must also take into considera- event from an adjacent mosque, very touching cases of Jews, who umphant Calvary, which is at a higher level tion that the Holy Fire appears immediately abandoned the believed in Christ after having Christ is than the Holy Sepulcher itself) only by the invocation of an Moslem religion and became an seen the Holy Fire, and who said shown as and lights up the little lamps. Orthodox Archbishop. Each time Orthodox Christian. This event to their compatriots: “Why are being blown It also lights up the candles of the Heterodox Bishops try to took place in 1549 under Sultan you still waiting for the Messiah? upwards by certain pilgrims. In fact there are obtain it, they fail. Mourad IV, when the Patriarch of The Messiah has come indeed.” the wind. some very pious pilgrims who, Once the Armenians paid the Jerusalem then was Sophronios II Together with every time they attended this cere- Turks, who then occupied the Holy (the aforementioned split column From “Differences between Adam, Eve mony, noticed that their candles lit Land, in order to obtain permission still exists, and Orthodox pilgrims and Roman Catholi- also stretches up on their own, without any effort for their Patriarch to enter the embrace it at the “place of the cism. forth her

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3552/557 14 Easter 2006 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 22, 2006 Jerusalem Now: A Glimpse at the Tensions Governing the Holy Land By Steven Erlanger another panorama, from nearby The New York Times Haanafa Street. On a hill above a scraggly olive grove, belonging to JERUSALEM - Jerusalem is a Palestinians but cut off from Beit city built on struggle and rivalry - Jala by the barrier, is the Israeli among gods and tribes and those neighborhood of Har Homa, who misuse them. resembling a gigantic stone Peace is much spoken of here. fortress. Built by Israel after the But at times, as I race along the 1993 Oslo accords on land partly narrow moral precipice, running expropriated from Palestinians, between a military checkpoint and this neighborhood once prompted a suicide bombing, I think of the riots and international protests. old Russian proverb: ''We shall Har Homa, too, was outside struggle for peace so hard that not Jerusalem before 1967. Now, with a tree will be left standing.'' its winding streets and shops, it There's enough to see in the looks like a suburb. It's what Holy City to confirm any preju- Israelis like to call one of the dice. But when I explore the city ''facts on the ground.'' where I have lived for nearly two CITY OF DAVID years now, I try to see Jerusalem I come to the City of David not as a place where both armies and only to feel the beginnings of this souls contend, as they contended place, but also to remind myself even before monotheism came, about how even archaeology is dusty and sunburned, out of the used as a weapon in the struggle desert to vanquish first the over the land. Jebusites, and then the Romans. This is ur-Jerusalem, the tiny, And I try to see it through vari- Jebusite city where David decided ous lenses, to be moved both by to place his new capital in about the Western Wall, with its weight 1000 BC to unite the 12 tribes of of tragedy and redemption, and by Israel. It's completely outside the the modern cement one, part of current walls of the so-called Old Israel's separation barrier, with its City. The stepped stone structure dual messages of protection and of the original walls protected the occupation. AP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON city above the Kidron Valley Even in the most visited places, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah leads the Roman Catholic Easter Sunday mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's (much deeper then) and guarded like the Temple Mount, the holy Old City last Sunday, April 16. The fact that the Eastern and Western did not coincide this year actually somewhat reduced Christian the Gihon Spring, the water site known to Muslims as Haram conflicts at the Holy Sepulcher. source which made a city possible. al-Sharif, and the Church of the Here, where the Israelites con- Holy Sepulcher, there is an abid- intended a unilateral pullout from feels fragile, its anxieties clois- city King David seized for his cap- ging the hills as it divides quered the Jebusites in annexed ing sense of struggle, as tribes and Gaza, and I returned as bureau tered by the wall which surrounds ital perches on a small hill. Above Jerusalem from the Palestinian East Jerusalem, there is a battle religions fight over the narrative of chief for this newspaper. most of the city and cuts through it rises the Temple Mount/Haram cities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala. going on over history. The Jewish Jerusalem and the custody of its Today, after a long truce with part of it. al-Sharif, with its golden Dome of You can follow its route quite a foundation which runs this site milky tea-colored stones, touched most Palestinian militants, For many travelers, that fragili- the Rock, perfectly aligned with long way - not perhaps what the supports Jews moving into East with fire at dawn and sunset. Jerusalem is calmer. Events this ty is a compelling reason to visit the domes of Al Aksa mosque. sponsors of the promenade had in Jerusalem, which enrages the I first came to Jerusalem in year have been dramatic: e.g., Jerusalem now to experience an To the west is the Old City in its mind. But it's a good metaphor for Palestinians who live here. It also 1983, when Israeli troops were Ariel Sharon's stroke, the forma- extraordinary city at an extraordi- quadrants, constructed by the where we are: Good walls may helps sponsor a compelling, outside Beirut, and I visited fre- tion of a Palestinian government nary time, and to see it as a mod- Romans after they razed the make good neighbors, but not if archaeological dig, for more than quently with variously optimistic by Hamas, the election of an ern city of contention, not just as a Jewish one, the extended city they take too much of the neigh- a year now, which may show that American officials during the Israeli government committed to a Biblical Disneyland. walls, and the reach of modern bor's land. King David wasn't just another Clinton era. Then I spent a month new West Bank pullout. AN OVERVIEW Jerusalem, Israel's largest city and In the Jewish neighborhood of tribal chieftain on a dusty hilltop. here during the last real war But the level of violence is With its dry climate and high one of its poorest. In the center is Gilo, which lies to the southwest The dig is part of the broader between the Israelis and Palestini- down: Tourists are returning; hills, Jerusalem offers some the sprawl of East Jerusalem and within an expanded, annexed, political battle over Jerusalem, an ans in the Spring of 2002, when restaurants are opening; and taxi sweeping vistas that reveal millen- the Palestinian town of Abu Dis, post-1967 Jerusalem, there is a effort to make more explicit the suicide bombings were at their drivers and tour guides are happi- niums of change. where some once thought a Pales- concrete wall on Ahlama Street, roots of Judaism here and buttress peak and Israeli troops reinvaded er in both sides of the city - the One of my favorites is the tinian state might have its capital, painted by Russian immigrants to the justice of creating a Jewish the West Bank, where they mostly Jewish West and the most- Goldman Promenade in the city's and where I once visited the eerie show the landscape now hidden. state here after World War II. It's remain. As I rushed from the siege ly Arab East. south. Open for 18 months, it runs shell of an unfinished parliament The wall was erected to protect a also part of an archeological fight of Bethlehem to a suicide bomb- Jerusalem is at peace, but not close to the Hill of Evil Counsel, building, full of spiders. kindergarten from gunfire from - whether the Bible is any accurate ing near Tel Aviv, I thought, with itself. There is anxiety on the once the seat of British governors, Off to the right, toward Jordan, Beit Jala, which rises above Gilo guide to history, or a tale embroi- ''these people are nuts,'' and I streets. Every ring on the cell now of the United Nations. there is a stark view of Israel's sep- on the other side of the valley. dered for political ends. Eilat wondered if I would ever return. phone thrums with alarm. When I The view on a recent morning aration barrier, with sections of Avi Ben Hur, the American- Mazar, an archaeologist, believes But in 2004, Yasir Arafat was travel between West and East, was revelatory. To the left was the road, electronic fencing and con- turned-Israeli guide who accom- on his last legs, and Ariel Sharon especially on a Saturday, the city Kidron Valley, where the Jebusite crete wall, nine yards high, hug- panied me here, pointed out Continued on Page 16

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3039/569 © îï ôö a b 16 Easter 2006 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 22, 2006 Jerusalem Now: A Glimpse at the Tensions Governing the Holy Land and stare down at the wide walls, name of the original Siloam pool, Valley. temple. Some evangelical Chris- Israelis call the security fence and Continued from page 14 over seven feet thick, which where the 580-yard tunnel leads. BATTLE FOR THE tians hope they'll do it, thinking the Palestinians the apartheid they've uncovered. Built by Herod and only recently HOLY SEPULCHER that only then will Christ return. wall, should also be seen at close she may have found King David's Farther down the hill, you can rediscovered, the pool is where the The Church of the Holy Sepul- Some Muslims are convinced that hand. In fact, of the 450 miles of palace, and explained to me why. also see evidence of the extensive blind man was told to come by cher is both a holy and a crazy the Jews are burrowing under- the unfinished barrier, only 5 per- ''When the Philistines came to dam and tunnel system, dug by Jesus Christ to wash his eyes and place, with its mishmash of archi- ground to create a new synagogue. cent is concrete wall, but much of fight, the Bible said David went King Hezekiah in 700 BC to see (John 9). Looking at these tectural styles and furious intra- Jews are upset that the Muslims that is in and around Jerusalem. down from his house to the ensure that water from the Gihon stones, which for 2,000 years had Christian battles over turf, proces- dug into the hill at the site of I try to see the barrier from fortress,'' she said. ''Maybe it Spring could be brought inside the never seen sunlight, and at a deli- sion times and even maintenance. Solomon's Stables in 1996 to cre- both the Palestinian and the meant something, maybe not. But walls of the city when the Assyri- cate three-leaf drain cover for To alter the position of the ratty ate a new underground mosque, Israeli points of view. But whatev- I wondered, down from where? ans besieged it, and to hide the rainwater, I imagine the beauty of wooden ladder under the window the Marwani. It's here, on the er its utility, it's an ugly scar on the Presumably from where he lived, spring itself from enemy eyes. The the city before the Romans razed above the would cause a ground revered by both Judaism mental and physical landscape of his palace. So I said, maybe there's huge cistern appears to be it after the great revolt in AD 70. furor because it would change the and Islam, where Jerusalem is the city, and beyond. Israel insists something here.'' Caananite, and it is oddly moving I left the site near the Siloam 1852 ''status quo'' agreement, most divided - and most volatile. one minute that it's temporary, Other archaeologists believe to hear the water rushing as it did pool, and walked onto the dusty made by the churches at a time And it's here that Mr. Sharon and the next that it's a prospective she may have found the Fortress two millenniums ago. I note the Palestinian street, with kids play- when the area was under Ottoman made a controversial visit in border. Palestinians excoriate it of Zion which David conquered, irony of the Palestinian workers, ing soccer in the hot March sun. rule. Every Orthodox Easter, the September 2000, which many for annexing land they consider or something else. But all agree who see themselves as descen- As I walked toward a kiosk for Armenians and the Greeks battle Muslims say set off the second (Al theirs, but many Jerusalemites, she made a major find: a large dants of the Caananites, laboring some water, I spotted a roughly over the Holy Fire ceremony on Aksa) intifada. Since then, non- Palestinians who have lived here public building dating from for the Israeli Antiquities Author- built cage of metal fencing, chest- the spot where Christ's tomb is Muslims may not enter the for generations, hate it for cutting around the 10th Century BC, the ity in a tourist area controlled by a high, which looked like the exit of believed to have been, and Israeli mosques on the Haram al-Sharif some of their neighborhoods from time of David and Solomon. foundation which wants to implant a garbage-strewn sewer. In fact, police sometimes intervene to sep- without permission. the central city, forcing them to I watch Ms. Mazar and her more Jews in their neighborhood, it's an outlet from the Gihon arate the tussling clerics. Only an eighth of the Western use checkpoints. team work at real archaeology as I Silwan. Spring, originally built to bring Victoria Clark's book about the Wall is visible on the plaza where I often take visitors north, walk over a metal-grid platform Silwan is a corruption of the water to the fields of the Kidron Church, ''Holy Fire: The Battle for Christ's Tomb (Macmillan 2005),'' details the spats - the war of the doormat, the battling over chairs. If an Egyptian Copt can place a chair in the Ethiopian courtyard, all could be lost in the struggle for the rooftop. But this is also the place where the pagan Romans tried and failed to wipe out the rebel Jews and the new Christian sect. The Romans, like the Americans, says Avner Goren, an archeologist and guide, had their vision of how best to THE AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE organize human communities - in cities of a certain design, with san- itation and walls and straight & IT’S AFFILIATES streets. ''They brought their one truth The AHI Foundation to this place of many truths and faiths,'' he says, pointing to the site The AHI Business Network of the new Roman city they built, The AHI Public Affairs Committee now the ''Old City.'' The Roman effort to eradicate the early Chris- WISH THE READERS tians lasted about 250 years. Even- tually, Constantine the Great OF THE NATIONAL HERALD decided to take the religion of worshippers gather. To see more, along the road built on top of the OUR MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS what had become the majority of and in a more private way, I like to pre-1967 border between Israeli his subjects, and that of his moth- go through the Wall Tunnel, again West Jerusalem and Jordanian er Helen, and he built a new by appointment, which cuts under- East Jerusalem, past the old Man- church where Christ had been cru- ground along a 2,000-year-old delbaum Gate and the American cified, where Hadrian had put a street alongside the wall, and exits Colony Hotel, toward Ramallah. KALI ANASTASI temple to Aphrodite. on the Via Dolorosa. Soon, the wall divides the street, ''All that's left of the Romans When Israel opened the tunnel and the shops get ramshackle, and here,'' says Mr. Goren, ''is the pat- in 1996, without informing the then there's the massive check- tern of the roads.'' Islamic authorities, there were point of Qalandiya. Sometimes I THE TEMPLE MOUNT riots and nearly 100 deaths. As the don't even go through the check- The struggles over the Temple tunnel comes closest to the site of point. I just get out and look at the Mount/Haram al-Sharif - where the Holy of Holies, many people people trudging through the dust Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac, pray at the massive Herodian or the mud, putting up with the where the Jewish temples stood, stones in the near dark. questions and the searches which, and where Muhammad is sad to But I like to go to another spot however humiliating, sometimes have ascended to Heaven - are to see the wall, less well-known prevent a terrorist from attaining fundamental, with fanatics of both and less crowded, near the Iron his aim.

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3169/564 18 Easter 2006 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 22, 2006 What is the Meaning of Easter? By the late Archimandrite of the Hebrew name for Passover. Nicon D. Patrinacos A long period of fasting prepa- Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia ration precedes the week of Pas- sion: Great and Easter is the celebration of the lead to Good Friday. Together, all day of the Resurrection. It is the lead to the joy of the Resurrec- greatest and oldest feast in the tion, which lasts liturgically for Christian calendar. Especially for forty whole days after it to the day the Orthodox, there is no greater of the Ascension of the Resurrect- feast than Easter, to include the ed Christ. feast of the Nativity (Christmas), In the ancient Church, those which in the Western Church who were preparing to be accept- appears to be the chief feast of ed in the life of Christ by Baptism their ecclesiastical calendar. were allowed to attend the service The reasons for the preemi- of Holy Saturday night, and were nence of Easter among the Ortho- baptized early on Easter Day and dox are many, all based on a par- received Holy Communion. ticular passage of Saint Paul's Homes and entire towns were illu- First Epistle to the Corinthians: minated with the light of Resur- “If Christ has not been raised, rection taken from the celebrant then our preaching is in vain, and after he proclaimed Christ resur- We wish all our friends a your faith is in vain (I Corinthians rected at the Saturday midnight 15.14).” service before the Paschal Liturgy Happy Easter Characteristic of the impor- would begin. tance of the Resurrection for the with Peace on Earth! Orthodox is the fact that Easter is The Resurrection light also called, in Greek, “Lampri,” the brightest day of all. The Res- is taken to be the urrection light, which is brought to visible symbol the Orthodox home from the mid- of a new life... Think of us for all your night service of the Resurrection, [] is taken to be the visible symbol of Manhattan Real Estate Needs! a new life in the resurrected The famous Orthodox Christ, a life of joy after the sor- proclamatory hymn (“Christ is row of the Cross. And though the risen from the dead by death tram- Passion is observed with the depth pling on death…”) remains for the and significance as befits the Orthodox not only the crown jewel Lord's supreme sacrifice, it is His of the entire Orthodox hymnolo- Resurrection which seals the gy, but also the symbol of national redemption issuing from the liberation of Orthodox Christian Cross. Without that, the Orthodox countries. feel, the divide drama would have The Saturday night vigil of the remained unfulfilled in terms of early Church has been retained by the experience of human life, by the Orthodox Church, while in the which a triumphant katharsis must West, it was moved back first to follow all sacrifices, including that the afternoon and later to the Froso Beys Anna Xylas on Golgotha. morning of Holy Saturday, so that Every Sunday Liturgy of the the first Easter Mass came to be 212.605.9325 212.605.9285 year is devoted to the Resurrec- celebrated on Saturday. But since [email protected] [email protected] tion, rather than to the suffering of 1950, the Orthodox and ancient Christ; hence, the joyful tone of custom of holding the first Liturgy the Orthodox Eucharist and the of Easter at midnight on Saturday the corcoran group real estate 660 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10021 underlying victory against the (i.e., Sunday morning) is gradually Tel.: 212.355.3550 Fax: 212.223.6381 www.corcoran.com forces of evil implied in the Com- being restored in the Roman munion of the Body and Blood of Catholic Church. manhattan ñ brooklyn ñ the hamptons Christ. In this respect, the etymol- north fork ñ shelter island ñ palm beach ogy of Pascha (claimed by some as The above is published in The a b Owned and operated by NRT Incorporated deriving from the Greek verb, Orthodox Messenger (vol. VII, paschein, to suffer) is erroneous. nos. 3-4), published bi-monthly The name Pascha is merely the by the SA Central Youth in Aus-

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