Happy Easter from the Desert Foundation!
POOR DEATH, where is your sting?
Poor hell, where is your triumph?
Christ steps out of the tomb and you are reduced to nothing.
Christ rises and the angels are wild with delight.
Christ rises and life is set free.
Christ rises and the graves are emptied of dead.
Oh yes, for he broke from the tomb like a flower,
a beautiful fruit:
the first fruit of those already gone.
All glory be his, all success and power … forever and ever, Amen.
from an Easter sermon by St. John Chrysostom
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