Easter Week 6: Sunday

“In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.” (John 14:19)

Saint Basil the Great offers the following insight on this verse from today's Gospel:

“[Jesus] applied the word world to those who, being bound by this material and carnal life and beholding the truth by material sight alone, were ordained through their unbelief in the resurrection to see our Lord no more with the eyes of the heart. For the carnal person who has never trained his mind for contemplation but rather keeps it buried deep in the lust of the flesh, as in mud, is powerless to look up to the spiritual light of the truth.” (On the Holy Spirit, 22)



Easter Collect
Grant, almighty God,
that we may celebrate
with heartfelt devotion these days of joy,
which we keep in honor of the risen Lord,
and that what we relive in remembrance
we may always hold to in what we do.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with You
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.



The Lord is risen! Alleluia!
He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!