Christ is Risen!
"It is so sad to part with Lent and with the Week of Easter. I am always grieved by the closing of the sanctuary gates on the Saturday of St. Thomas and, in general, by the ending of Easter Week. They still sing 'Christ is Risen!', but everything becomes more difficult, as if the gates of the kingdom of heaven had really closed, those gates which have only just been opened in answer to our prayers and fasting. People plunge themselves once more with a sort of ravenousness into futile, worldly pursuits, and the churches become empty." (Excerpt from Fr. Alexander Elchaninov's, The Diary of a Russian Priest)
Fr. John
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