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InCogNeat3's #287488 04/27/08 09:19 PM
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As Saint Paul notes: "If Christ is not risen from the Dead, then our faith is in vain".

TODAY is the touchstone for Christians.

TODAY is the day that we stand up and say: He did what He foretold.

TODAY is the day that we talk to our friends and neighbors and affirm: The account is cleared; Christ paid the debt.

TODAY is the day that we can breathe again as emancipated Children of God.

TODAY is the day that we can live emancipated from the Torah law and the bounds of anything but "Love of God and Love of Neighbor".

TODAY we absolutely know that the Holy Spirit will come to us and guide our actions when we ask as emancipated Children of God.

TODAY it is OK to sing and to dance and enjoy a festive meal with our families and friends and strangers whom we meet.

TODAY is the day that we abjure any human ethnic, racial, cultural, gender or age divisions, and proclaim: Jesus, Who is the Christ - the Anointed One, has united all of God's creation in salvation by His death and Resurrection!

TODAY is the day that ALL of creation is transformed by Jesus' Death and Resurrection.

ALL that has been is now fulfilled, and the whole Universe is transformed into a new era of Salvation.

Let All creation give thanks to Him who redeems us all!

GLORY to Jesus, the Christ!!

May His blessing be recognized by all!

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Christ is Risen!

A blessed Pascha to all my brothers and sisters who celebrated Pascha today.

Many years,

Neil


"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Indeed He is Risen!

Thanks Neil.

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Blessed Pascha!

May God bless and keep you....

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