Christ is Our Passover Easter 2016

For indeed Christ, our Passover  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 1 Cor 5:7

Ekhrestos Anecty  Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.  Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and unto the age of all ages Amen.

St Jerome  For if, as Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and if the man who does not know Scripture does not know the power and wisdom of God, then ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.

To Lithos  When the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers were guarding Your undefiled Body, You arose on the third day, O Savior, granting life to the world. For this reason, the heavenly powers cried out to You, O Giver of Life, "Glory to Your Resurrection O Christ. Glory to Your kingdom. Glory be to Your Economy, O You who alone are Lover of Mankind."

St. Gregory the Theologian Homily on Pascha  "Yesterday I was crucified with Him; today I am glorified with Him; yesterday I died with Him; today I am quickened with Him; yesterday I was buried with Him; today I rise with Him. But let us offer to Him Who suffered and rose again for us— you will think perhaps that I am going to say gold, or silver, or woven work or transparent and costly stones, the mere passing material of earth, that remains here below, and is for the most part always possessed by bad men, slaves of the world and of the Prince of the world.

 Let us offer ourselves, the possession most precious to God, and most fitting; let us give back to the Image what is made after the Image. Let us recognize our Dignity; let us honour our Archetype; let us know the power of the Mystery, and for what Christ died." St. Gregory the Theologian Homily on Pascha

St. Ambrose of Milan "The Sunday of the Resurrection”  "...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival is called by this name. For it was on this day that the Children of Israel crossed over out of Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His Father. What gain is it to celebrate unless you imitate Him Whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from Egypt, that is, from the darkness of evildoing to the light of virtue, from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly home?"

St Cyril of ALexandria  Our Lord Jesus Christ joined together on the same day the paschal lamb of the Jews and the True Manna when blessing the bread and the wine He said: "This is My Body, this is My Blood.”