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iLife™ to Go

Ran across this new site in my daily perusings. It's an online photo/video scrapbook that you can build and share with people. All MySpace / YouTube / Flickrish-like. Haven't tried it out myself yet, but I watched the demo and checked out a few of the already existing "scrapblogs." Pretty cool if you've got the time on your hands.

Bright Week

Apparently I'm not the only one experiencing Post-Paschal Depression, Bill from Oregon's account offers some comfort. I wonder why it happens? I felt horrible all day today; like I hadn't accomplished anything during the entirety of Lent and Holy Week. So weird.

Now that Pascha has come and gone, I get to relocate and begin setting up an apartment that will soon be a new home for myself and the woman of my dreams. I can't wait! The list of things to do is slowly but surely dwindling (finally!).

At work, Chris and I have been working on making the new website for my company a possibility. All I can say is that Firefox ROCKS, and for those of you with Internet Explorer 6, please, please quit using it and either switch to Firefox, or upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 which is light years ahead of it's predecessor. They are all browsers that allow you to surf the web, but Firefox is my recommendation. Have I dropped enough hints yet? :)

Hope all is well with everyone. Love God, pray wholeheartedly, and please remember me in your prayers. Good night!

Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom

Experiences in life from year to year allow me to receive and understand these words of hope and victory just a little bit more. The battle is won, life is victorious and death is overthrown. Glory to Thy resurrection O Christ!
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"If any man be devout and loves God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense. If any have wrought from the first hour let him today receive his just reward. If any have come at the third hour, let him with thankfulness keep the feast. If any have arrived at the sixth hour, let him have no misgivings; because he shall nowise be deprived therefore. If any have delayed until the ninth hour, let him draw near, fearing nothing. If any have tarried even until the eleventh hour, let him, also, be not alarmed at his tardiness; for the Lord, who is jealous of His honor, will accept the last even as the first; he gives rest unto him who comes at the eleventh hour, even as unto him who has wrought from the first hour. And he shows mercy on the last and cares for the first; and to the one he gives and upon the other he bestows gifts. And he both accepts the deeds, and welcomes the intention, and honors the acts, and praises the offering.

Wherefore, enter all into the joy of your Lord; and receive your reward, both the first and likewise the second. You rich and poor together, hold high festival. You sober and you heedless, honor the day. Rejoice today, both you who have fasted and you who have disregarded the fast. The table is full-laden; feast sumptuously! The calf is fatted; let no one go away hungry. Enjoy all the feast of faith: receive all the riches of loving-kindness. Let no one bewail his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed.

Let no one weep his iniquities, for pardon has shone forth from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Savior's death has set us free. He that was held prisoner of it has annihilated it. By descending into Hell, he made Hell captive. He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh. And Isaiah, foretelling this did cry: Hell, said he, was embittered, when it encountered Thee in the depths. It was embittered, for it was abolished. It was embittered, for it was mocked. It was embittered, for it was slain. It was embittered, for it was overthrown. It was embittered, for it was fettered in chains. It took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth and encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen.

O Death where is thy sting? O Hell where is thy victory? Christ is risen, and thou art overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave. For Christ, being risen from the dead, is become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

To Him be glory and dominion unto ages of ages. Amen!"

Couldn't help adding the bold for emphasis on what really struck me!

(I posted this over at the other site as well, but it's just so good I had to post it twice. Hope you don't mind!) Christ is risen!! Indeed, He is risen!