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Easter Message of His Beatitude Theodoros II

THEODOROS II
BY THE MERCY OF GOD, POPE AND PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA AND ALL AFRICA,
TO THE FAITHFUL OF OUR APOSTOLIC AND PATRIARCHAL THRONE, GRACE AND MERCY AND PEACE FROM OUR LORD AND GOD AND SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD.
For Christ our God has transferred us from death to life, and from earth to heaven."

Beloved and blessed children of the Lord,

CHRIST IS RISEN!

Today we celebrate the glorious Resurrection of the Lord and we rejoice as "the apostles rejoiced on seeing the Lord" (Jn 20:20). The Church, the Bride of Christ, rejoices and venerates the Cross and glorifies the Resurrection.

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Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt. 1 April 1990

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

On the fifth Sunday in Lent we remember Saint Mary of Egypt, and she can teach us a great deal of what we need to know. She was a sinner, publicly known, a temptation and a scandal to men. How she became a sinner - we do not know; whether there was evil in her, whether she was seduced or raped, how she became a harlot, we shall never know. What we know for sure is that one day she came to a church of the Mother of God - the image of perfect wholeness - and she suddenly felt that she could not enter it. We need not imagine a miraculous force preventing her from crossing the threshold; the force was probably - certainly - within herself. She felt that the realm was too sacred, and the person of the Mother of God too holy for her to dare walk into Her presence and stand in the precincts of the church.

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