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To: 9thLife

This sermon is recited at the midnight Divine Liturgy on Pascha in every Orthodox church on earth and has been for over 1000 years. Where your translation says Hell “was in an uproar”, the Greek actually says “It was vexed”. Each time the priest says this, the people roar back “IT WAS VEXED”.

A Blessed Easter to all you Westerners!


5 posted on 04/05/2015 6:50:16 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis

Happy not-yet-Pascha, Uncle K!


6 posted on 04/05/2015 7:10:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity." ~ Pope John Paul II)
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To: Kolokotronis
A Blessed Easter to all you Westerners!

If anyone doesn't know, The Other Easter will be next Sunday, April 12 (Gregorian) or March 30 (Julian, the calendar on which this dating is based). Sometimes "both Easters" fall on the same day, but by now they can fall up to five weeks apart, thanks to at least two differences between the methods.

In other words, for a lot of people today is Palm Sunday.

10 posted on 04/05/2015 11:41:12 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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