The Terrible & Wonderful Invitation
A Paschal Homily
Great and Holy Pascha invites us to witness once again the incredible and universe-changing moment when mortality is defeated for all of us. The temptation to tame this Terrible and Wonderful News as mere nostalgia or just a pious habit is a trick to get us to ignore this wonderful and terrible invitation.
Thank you, Father Barnabas! I remember when I was first exploring Orthodoxy and I was reading Nicholas Cabasilus who wrote that our life here teaches us how to be in eternity. Otherwise, how will be able to walk in the eternal Light? We won't know how. This had a HUGE impact on me.