We congratulate and bless you with joy on the Resurrection of Christ, the children of the Georgian Orthodox Church living in San Francisco and throughout California!!! Today, eternal life \u2013 Christ the Savior \u2013 has dawned upon humanity\u2026 From the rising of the sun to its setting, the world rejoices, for He is the renewer and life-giver of all creation\u2026 The gates of heaven are open and the earth sings with the heavens\u2026 Rejoice!!! and be glad!!! For Christ is risen and the torch of eternal life and eternal joy has shone!!! Today in San Francisco, the first glorious Easter Vigil service was celebrated\u2026. Today St. The Cross of St. Nino shone for the first time on the Golden Gate of San Francisco, and the motherly grace of the Georgian Orthodox Apostolic Church was poured out on the Georgians living here and on all \u2013 the children of our Church\u2026.
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You know that for a year now, my prayers have not ceased for the children of the Georgian Orthodox Church living in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and throughout California\u2026 And while we are talking about the joy of Easter, it is natural to talk about the issues of organizing our church. This one year has shown us how our compatriots are thirsty for the grace of our Mother Church, they are thirsty for unity, i.e. Love for each other\u2026 We have gone through many trials here, without a mother church, we have also suffered great spiritual pain for our own homeland in trial\u2026 And we went like orphans to the doors of different churches to receive spiritual comfort\u2026 Of course, the Orthodox Church is one, but just as everyone loves their mother, their hearth more, so we love the hearth of our spiritual homeland the most\u2026 We could not have other churches be mothers here\u2026 And here, today we are speaking in Georgian to the Lord of Rights\u2026 The members of today\u2019s parish are like spiritual missionaries in this area\u2026 In our hands, in the far west of this world, a Georgian Church with a 17-century history is being formed and established\u2026 Our ancestors, when they founded churches and monasteries abroad, were true preachers of Christ both in word and deed, and their main value was love for God and neighbor\u2026 One of the reasons for this A prime example is Anthimose of Iveria, who is today considered one of the luminaries of the Romanian Church\u2026 Orthodoxy is not the religion of any nation, it is the faith of love, where there is no partiality\u2026 We know that for many centuries the greatest empires preached Orthodoxy\u2026 Some empires no longer exist\u2026 But Orthodoxy is and will be until the end of this world\u2026 Orthodoxy has never been preached in Georgia by force. It was both the beginning and the continuation of love\u2026 And so it is today\u2026 And today when we see a Georgian person, even a non-church person, involuntarily \u2018that\u2019 love emanates from him\u2026<\/p>\n
From today's festive Gospel, the Spirit of God once again revealed the truth to us, and we too have witnessed once again that Jesus Christ is not only true man but also true God, who descended from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit... He bore the cross... He was crucified... He was buried... as a man... and rose again on the third day... and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father...<\/p>\n
He is\u2026 which was\u2026 which is\u2026 and which will be\u2026 forever\u2026<\/p>\n
The miracle of the Resurrection is an unfathomable mystery \u2013 God became man and man became deified\u2026 God endured death on the cross so that we might become immortal with Him in eternal life\u2026 However, it is no longer unfathomable because we have attained resurrection with Christ. . . And this is a wondrous and great mystery\u2026 So, brothers and sisters, let us receive the flesh of Christ and taste the source of immortality\u2026<\/p>\n
Christ is risen!!!
\nTruly!!!<\/p>\n
Christ is risen!!!
\nTruly!!!<\/p>\n
Christ is risen!!!
\nTruly!!!<\/p>\n
With Christlike love, Priest-Nun Ioane (Kavsadze).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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