The great danger facing all of us...is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all – not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God – and be content to have it so – that is the danger. That someday we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. For life without God, to one who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one's friends may be spared – satisfaction with a life that falls short of the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a friendship with the Father.
Phillips Brooks

CHRISTOS ANESTI

^αστάσ^ως ημέρα.

‘TIS the Day of Resurrection:
Earth, tell it out abroad!
The Passover of Gladness!
The Passover of God!

From Death to Life Eternal, —
From Earth, unto the sky,
Our Christ hath brought us over.
With hymns of victory.

Our hearts be pure from evil,
That we may see aright
The Lord in rays eternal
Of Resurrection-Light:
And, listening to His accents,
May hear, so calm and plain,
His own All Hail! and, hearing,
May raise the victor strain!

Now let the Heavens be joyful!
Let earth her song begin!
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein:
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend;
For Christ the Lord hath risen, —
Our Joy that hath no end.

-ST. JOHN DAMASCENE.