“The true celebration is the renewal of ourselves. Pascha is our personal passage from death to life, from the experience of spiritual death (our estrangement from God) to living the first resurrection (life in Christ).”

- Met Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and St Gregory the Theologian, The Science of Spiritual Medicine, pg 403.

Reflection: 

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!   

We often hear people speculating on the meaning of the Resurrection without making recommendations on a personal level, and others who speak about correcting the way we live, but without any real theology.(1)  

Our lives are a theological experience - life lived with God. 

Having celebrated the Resurrection of Christ: what do we feel? How are we acting? How are our thoughts behaving? Where are our thoughts directed? 

Our God became human, suffered as we do, died and Resurrected in order that we may spend eternity with Him in the joy of Heaven forever.  Have we responded to anything Christ has done for us? In other words, are we acting, feeling, thinking, praying and existing the same as we did two weeks ago?

Let us dive deeper into our relationship with Christ, so that we may live each day renewed by His love, our hearts strengthened by His compassion, and our minds grounded in His peace. 

Let us live in the joy of the Resurrection of Christ, becoming new people, spreading His love and the joy of His Kingdom in the world.  

Resources: 
1) Met Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, The Science of Spiritual Medicine, pg 401.