Friday, May 24, 2019

"Let the village of Prokopi leap for joy and cry out to God today..."

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
St. John the Russian (source)
  
Let the village of Prokopi leap for joy and cry out to God today: My beauty today shines greater than any other city, for behold the divine offspring of Russia and the great treasure of the Venerable, John, who is truly the namesake of grace, proceeds towards Heaven, leaving behind me behind his holy body for my sanctification. Therefore, come, all you ranks of the Orthodox, let us celebrate his divine memory, that we might partake of the grace of him who intercedes on behalf of our souls.
-Doxastikon of the Litia in the Plagal of the First Tone, from the feast of St. John the Russian of Evia
  
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St. John the Russian (source)
  
Christ has risen from the dead, by death trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life!
Truly the Lord is risen!

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