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OrthoPrax: Faith on the Go
OrthoPrax® is the ultimate modern Christian resource—a combined Church calendar, prayer book, and collection of readings—designed to help you explore your faith and enjoy the liturgical cycle of the Church. Regardless of your daily pace, OrthoPrax is there for you: to anchor you to things that matter, answer your questions, help your spiritual growth—all at your fingertips, and always with you. More Info: icxclife.info
From His Grace Bishop MAXIM
Biography of His Grace Bishop Maxim
Pastoral Thought of the Week
The Reality of the Resurrection
In the liturgical texts of the Paschal Resurrection service, we say that the Lord is risen and, in rising, He raises up the whole world with Him, “the human world,” in the words of the Synaxarion of Pascha. In the Orthodox Church, the icon of the Resurrection does not depict Christ smiling above the tomb, as if He had accomplished some individualistic feat, but rather presents Him with a face so joyful that it appears at the same time sorrowful. He is shown pulling up those “bound in shackles” and drawing out all of the condemned from death into life, and from darkness into light. And we sing at Pascha: “Now all things are filled with light—heaven, earth, and the infernal underworld.” When one lives within the Orthodox Church, one experiences this as reality, as ontological fact. And when we sing that “all the trees of the forest are rejoicing today; their nature has been sanctified because the Body of Christ was stretched out upon a tree,” this too is experienced as reality.
