Even utterly archaic ones are especially strong and relevant. And Easter in this regard is a very special case. So the site will tell you now about how to say Easter greetings correctly.

What you need to know about Easter greetings?

To begin with, let's clarify right away - both versions of the greeting are acceptable, both between people and between church leaders. The problem here is that “resurrected” is an archaic form of the Old Slavonic “resurrected”. According to linguists, verbs used to have 4 forms of the past tense. And this word was just in one of the rather rare verb forms called "aorist". This meant that the verb meant a single and complete action performed in the past.

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While Old Church Slavonic was in use, there were no other options for Easter greetings at all. But with language reform and simplification, the need for several forms of the past tense has disappeared. Ordinary people began to say "resurrected", and the original version remained only in the Church Slavonic dialect. And is still preserved. So it's quite normal if the leaders of the church answer you exactly "Truly Risen."

By the way, this is also an important point - it is to answer. The fact is that within the framework of the Orthodox tradition, the first part of the phrase is pronounced by the one who is younger. By age, rank or position. The laity, in this regard, are considered "younger" than the priests, regardless of age.

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The tradition of Easter greeting itself goes back to apostolic times. And it is mentioned in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. It symbolizes the joy of the apostles from the very fact of realizing this great event. Hence the enthusiastic intonation, and the custom of a triple kiss.

Interestingly, this greeting can be used not only on Easter day, but also within 40 days after it. All within the framework of the traditional "funeral" Christian traditions.

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It is also worth noting that this phrase was translated into all available languages ​​of the world, which symbolizes the unity of Christian culture. And even several artificial languages. But it's funny to hear an Easter greeting in the language of the elves, invented by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, or in the Klingon language, created by fans of the fantasy series Star Trek.

We also believe that it would be useful for you to learn about how to do it in general. After all, Easter greetings alone are not enough for this - there are a huge number of national and religious traditions in this regard.

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We speak and write in Russian competently.

Responsible Yesenia Pavlotsky, linguist-morphologist, expert at the Institute of Philology, Mass Media and Psychology, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.

An important and beloved by many holiday - Easter has come. The traditions and customs of this day are well known to everyone, because both religious people and those who simply like the paraphernalia of this holiday are waiting for Easter. And, of course, we are all well acquainted with such an Easter custom as an Easter greeting or Christ-giving.

The custom is to greet each other from the first day of Easter until the Ascension of the Lord (or only on Easter day) with a joyful exclamation "Christ is risen!" and answer "Truly risen!".

However, someone says: "Christ is risen!", And someone - "Christ is risen!". Where did the form of the resurrection come from and how to speak correctly?

It is not news that the grammatical system of the modern Russian language has not always been the same as it is today. Remember how you frowned at school, studying the tense forms of the English verb, its endless compound tenses? Difficult - we do not have such a thing. Still as it is! Or rather, it was, and no less. Instead of a thousand words - a scheme of verbal forms of the Old Russian language.

For example, there were four forms of the past tense: perfect, imperfect, pluperfect, and aorist.

The language system has undergone a series of complex, fundamental changes, the result of which was the language in its present state. Only the Church Slavonic language has preserved the ancient forms, since it was and remains the language of worship. Being dead, it, accordingly, is not colloquial, that is, it does not develop and does not change, but is used (like Latin) in church writing and writing, in hymnography and daily worship in some Orthodox churches.

"Voskrese" - this is the Old Slavonic and Church Slavonic form of the verb "resurrected"; the word "resurrected" is in the aorist form. Aorist (ancient Greek ἀ-όριστος - "having no (exact) boundaries" from other Greek ἀ- "not-" or "without-" + other Greek ὁρίζω - to establish a border) - temporary form a verb denoting a completed (single, instantaneous, perceived as indivisible) action committed in the past.

Thus, the combinations "Christ is risen" and "Christ is risen" are not mutually exclusive: one version is Church Slavonic, standing in a temporary form that is absent in modern Russian - Christ is risen. The second option - Christ is risen - modern. Both options are correct.

It does not matter which option you prefer: the main thing is to listen and hear each other, and also congratulate you on the holiday sincerely, from the bottom of your heart.

After Easter, I went to the children's classroom. They know that since you are a cleric and a theologian, you must by all means say to them: “Christ is Risen!” And so I entered, but decided not to tell them anything - naturally, for a specific purpose. I just greeted them and asked:

Well, how are you? What you are doing?

And one of the disciples turned and said to me:

We must say "Christ is Risen," Father!

Ah, he is truly risen! Many years!

But you didn't say it!

Yes, he didn't.

The other children were surprised that the student pointed out to me What I have to say, and corrected me. At this time, there was a knock on the door, and a boy from another class came in, who wanted to take a basketball from them:

Excuse me, can you give me your basketball? And then we have nothing to play with.

Everyone shouted:

Get out! We won't give you a ball! Last time we gave it to you, and you lost it. We don't give balls anymore! Leave!

The poor child closed the door in shame and left. I turned to the class and told them:

Children, behind all these screams, you forgot to tell him what you told me.

Christ is Risen! I should have told him, “Get out of here! Christ is Risen!"

They were dumbfounded and looked at me carefully:

What do you mean?

"Christ is risen" is such a strong expression that it is not enough to say it

I mean the same thing you just meant. You remarked to me when I entered the classroom (and you correctly said!) that I should have said hello with the words "Christ is risen." But “Christ is risen” is such a strong expression, such a powerful reality, that it is not enough to say it: you need to embody it in your daily life, in your experiences, in your reborn thought, in your transfigured heart, in all everyday circumstances. You easily say: “Christ is risen”, but - “We won’t give you the ball!”, “Christ is risen”, but - “Close the door and leave us alone!”

Christ is Risen means that I am resurrected with Him. Otherwise, it reminds me of something said by a young man when I was still in high school. I was small then, and, of course, he told me this with irony:

Christ is Risen! Well, what does this tell me?

He is risen, and I? And you? And we? What does this mean for our life here and now? Does it affect the reality in which I live at all?

Here are the cousins, they are so hospitable at home, they meet, open the door and:

Hello! Christ is Risen! Sit down, let's have a coffee, let's talk!

They sit down and discuss what they will say in court in such and such a case, agree on how to accuse another of their relatives on a matter related to some kind of property. They discuss what they will say, how they will get along with each other. Time passes, finally they come to an agreement and:

OK, bye. See you in court! Don't forget the detail I told you, it's very important! OK Bye! Christ is Risen!

Christ is risen, but you abolish these words in your life. You press the "Cancel", "Delete" buttons on the keyboard. In words you say “Christ is risen”, but in your life nothing has risen yet. The coffins of egoism, my passions, my vices and weaknesses still live and stink in me.

Here is the desired goal: how, O my Christ, will my life be resurrected? I pray to God about this and now I am not speaking as your teacher, but simply saying that you should be attentive to what you say.

Do you remember what the Old Testament says? “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” (Deut. 5:11). And you put these sacred words into your mouth, but in fact you abolish them.

I once called a Christian who I know has financial ability:

Christ is Risen!

Risen indeed! he replied.

Great: you know it, you say it, you do the right thing.

You know, there is one poor family that needs funds.

Oh, father, what can you do? You know, now there is a crisis, there are only problems all around. I pray they come up with some solution. What to do? I can't help them. We'll talk another time. Christ is risen, father!

Risen indeed! Goodbye!

“Christ is risen” - but you are still a money-lover, you are still a difficult person, your heart is still closed. You are not resurrected

“Christ is Risen,” but you are still a money-lover, you are still stingy, you are still a difficult person, your heart is still closed. You are not resurrected. The love of money and selfishness are still alive, they have not died.

I said the same thing to another person who does not go to church, he does not strongly believe in God, does not have a special external connection with the Church, like all of us, the rest. But I don't know what's going on in his heart. And in fact, what happens is what Christ says - that publicans and sinners will be the first to enter paradise. He did not tell me: “Christ is risen”, but as soon as he heard about the poor family, he immediately handed me 500 euros with the words:

Take them, father, and do what you want, give them where you need them.

I told him:

Christ is Risen!

And he answered me:

The Lord is true! I don't know if I'm saying this correctly.

Someone will say: well, is it right? No, it is wrong, it would be more correct to say: “Christ is risen”, to love the Lord, to live by the Lord and in practice to fulfill the Gospel in your life.

I'm not saying that I like it better when someone who is an atheist lives like a Christian. Because there are atheists who say they are atheists, but they are not. They have spiritual nobility in their souls, active love, philanthropic feelings, they hear the pain of another and cry, they have a sensitive heart, they are touched by the heart.

Do you remember the man who told Elder Paisios about his sister, who wandered around drinking establishments at night and worked in the hospital during the day? He said to the old man:

I will lose my sister! She's going to hell! Because he hangs around all sorts of institutions, sells himself and commits sins!

The old man said to him:

Does she work in a hospital?

When she is with the sick, is she humble, kind, helping them?

Very much, father! She loves the sick, cleans the bed for the elderly, does not shun anything, gives them everything, as if they were her parents.

Don't worry, my child, God will help her! He will grab onto it.

But she doesn’t really go to church much, she has no connection with what the rest of us are doing ...

We say: "Christ is risen." And then we stab another in the back with a very beautiful knife

“We, the rest, are doing…” And what are we doing? We say: "Christ is risen." And then we stab another in the back with a very beautiful knife, on which is inscribed: “Christ is Risen!”

Wow! On you! Christ is Risen!

Christ is Risen! Risen indeed! However, has He risen in my life? Or was He resurrected simply as some kind of historical event that you are reporting in this way?

I remembered that man and his words when I was little: what does it mean that Christ is risen? What has changed because He has risen? Was He resurrected for Himself alone?

On the icons, Christ is depicted stretching out his hand and tearing Adam and Eve from the tomb. And how can He tear you away, how can He resurrect you with this Resurrection of Christ?

The Lord is truly risen. The Lord transforms people, changes them. When His love enters the soul, He transforms the soul and body, everything changes, the person is transformed, his soul changes, the quality of the heart changes, the mind calms down, the person calms down, sleeps peacefully, wakes up, and he has a desire to live. There is a desire to work, to go forward - all this is given to you by Christ.

Who forced one young man to sacrifice everything for the sake of Christ, and when I visited Holy Mount Athos, he told me: “I want to talk to you”?

You know me? I asked him.

No, but one day you said hello to me and wished me spiritual strength, so I wanted to tell you something.

He came to my cell. I asked him:

Of course, from an early age you went to church, then you became attached to the Church and now you have become a monk?

Nothing like this.

What were you like?

I was a vagabond. Hanging around, nightlife, sinning, riding motorcycles, having girlfriends, drinking, destroying everything, having fun, burning my life, me and my company.

But surely your parents are Christians?

Nothing like this. They didn't even know where the temple was. By the ringing of bells, they understood that something was happening, that there was a temple somewhere nearby, but they did not go to church.

So what happened?

What happened? My father scolded me, got drunk, beat me, pushed me away from him. I didn't feel love. And he longed for love all his life, longed for understanding, warmth, consolation and love, which he did not find where he went. I was fed up with sins, and in fact I was looking for God, but I did not find Him in all this.

So what happened in the end?

I don’t know what happened to me, I came to the Holy Mountain together with one company on a pilgrimage, it was like a walk, like an excursion, and then like a brick fell on my head from God’s love. There was a shock in me, something happened, and I wanted to change my life. That's how I changed. And before that, my mother constantly reproached me: “Well, why are you doing this, wandering around at night, constantly changing girls, committing so many sins!” And now I suddenly said to her: “I am leaving, I am moving away and going to give everything to God!”

Previously, my mother was afraid and reproached me that I was sinning, but then she began to do the opposite: she offered me new acquaintances, insisted that I should get married, that I should not go to church so much, etc. She said: “Well, of course, we told you to become a spiritual person, but not to the same extent! Marry this girl or another: this one is the priest's daughter, this one is the theologian's sister, and this one is very good!” - "No no!" - "But why?"

Another cannot understand you if you are crazy about Divine love

Because there is no “why” when it comes to the madness of Divine love: then the other cannot understand you if you are crazy about Divine love. Because if madness because of something human inspires you and steals you, if you can be inspired by a person who is just a ray of Divine beauty, if one ray drives you crazy with love, then imagine what will happen if this ray will lead you to the Source of Light, to the Light itself, so that you can see all the radiance, beauty, love? Then you will forget everything, you will be overwhelmed by this greatness that you feel. No one will understand you, they will look at you strangely, they will discuss you and ask themselves: “What happened to him?” And you will think: “I don’t care what you say about me at all.”

Love is healed by love. Love is replaced by love - when you feel something stronger, you will leave everything, and you will not have problems, you will crave God's love, which God will give you abundantly. You will leave without hatred, you will avoid everyone, but you will love them and experience something else in your soul.

When I wanted to give this monk some gifts (dried fruits, chocolate) that I brought from Athens, he told me:

Father, I don't need it even though I don't have it, because we don't eat it here. But I long for God's love and real human love.

I began the story with the words "Christ is Risen" because I could not explain the change that had taken place in this man otherwise. Who changed this man? Who made his eyes like that? This was revealed to me by his friend, with whom they were together in the world and who once also came to the Holy Mountain to see him, and he himself also repented of his past life. His friend told me:

Father, this young man whom you now see so repentant, with kind eyes from humility and tears of repentance, if you had seen how he was before, you would not believe your eyes. You would be wondering if he is or not? How did he become so kind?

This is how God changes a person when he enters his heart, how his soul is transformed, how conscience is pacified, how sleep is calmed, how sweeter and more beautiful the heart beats, how everything changes in it ...

This change comes from the right hand of the Most High. A person is changed through the resurrected and living Christ, who is not just words. A person is changed not only by stories, how we sometimes quarrel over these issues and argue with such arguments, as if we had whole disks with encyclopedic knowledge about Christ in our minds, when in fact we just need to have the seal of Christ in our hearts.

What do you prefer? A disk with boundless knowledge about Christ or a heart bearing the imprint of the face of Christ?

What do you prefer: that I retell you a book in which words, words, words, historical documents, arguments, encyclopedic data are written about Christ, or that I show you the heart? What do you prefer? This disk with boundless knowledge about Christ or a heart bearing the imprint of the bloodied palm of Christ, the face of Christ?

So what do you prefer? Do you want me to show you this sacred veil that belonged to Saint Veronica, with which the Lord wiped himself, as the legend says, and the face of Christ was imprinted on it? I do not know if this was a genuine event, but I know the power of this thought - to look for the imprint of Christ in my soul. Because everything else is words about Christ, these are theories, reasons for us to quarrel, issues that we discuss, conferences that we organize, and whether we speak - we speak to convince, to explain that we are such and such and our words are correct! Yes, that's good, but who can stand up and show us Christ?

How I wish, says Saint Silouan of Athos, to show you the face of Christ! This is a different kind of knowledge, different in And the face of Christ, without arguments, another touch. You understand?

When you love someone, you tell him: “I will do whatever you want! I will fulfill your every desire, every sigh. You understand the other, love carries intuition. When you love, you understand that your beloved loves, that he is pleased, and you please him.

But we have a problem with loving another, it's not the other's fault. If we loved him, then everything would be perfect. Christ brought this with His Resurrection: He helped us to endure, to change our view, with which we look at people, events, and different cases.

I can't hear when someone says, "Christ is risen," followed by despair, disappointment, fear, uncertainty, anxiety, confusion, stress, panic. And the rest: "Christ is Risen!" Where is it?

Christ is Risen! But I don't know if I'll pass my exams, I'm in a panic, someone says.

Of course, I don't know if you will pass the exams, and the fact that Christ has risen does not mean at all that everyone will pass the exams. 'Cause one kid at school said to me

Father, you say “Christ is risen”, but my grandfather died. Why do I need this “Christ is Risen” if grandfather died?

I told him:

Christ did not change the world outwardly, but changed us, our eyes, heart, mind, attitude to events

Listen, if you understand these words Christ is Risen in your heart, then you will look at death with different eyes, you will hear about events, and they will concern you in a different way. Christ did not change the world outwardly, but changed us, our eyes, heart, mind, attitude to events, and when we see the same events in front of us as before Christ, that is, we see floods, death, illness, problems, then everything it doesn't disappear. Problems exist, but Christ has given us new eyes, a new perspective on the life He has given us.

Here is an example. I once went to the funeral of a 25-year-old woman, very young, beautiful, beautiful, kind, and all kinds of people were standing around. Imagine: I, a priest, next to me is an atheist, next to him is an employee of a funeral agency, behind him is a young man who has his own youthful inclinations, etc., and we all look at the same thing - at the dead body of a young woman. The reason for our being there is the same, we all look at the same deceased young woman, but not all look at this death in the same way.

The priest looks at her, striving for the sake of his faith, and says to himself: "Lord, this 25-year-old girl has achieved what another succeeds in 100 years - You have prepared her for Your Kingdom." A sad, tragic, mournful event, in general it is painful, but I look at it with hope, optimism, not as “others who have no hope” (1 Thess. 4: 13). We look at the same thing - at death, but we look with hope.

Next to me is an atheist, her relative, he looks at the same body and says to himself: "Hmm, the earth goes into the earth, that's it, the end comes, chemical processes, biological death, the end of everything, nothing remains, it's all over."

An employee of the funeral agency also looks at the same body and says to himself: “I see people, revival, flowers, this will bring us good profit, we will make so much money!”

A young man in the ardor of his youth looks at the same body and says to himself: “If she were alive, how many more hearts she would touch!”

We all look at the same thing but think about it differently. This happens with all things in life.

Christ does nothing more than tell you: “My child, I have brought a new brush with which you will paint the world with new colors: the color of love, the color of red blood that will flow on Golgotha, the white color of My Resurrection, the blue color of the Jordan River where I am washed away your sins with the color of the ears of wheat through which I walked. If you want, take and paint your life with My colors and look at everything differently. Want? Do you want me to strengthen you so that you and I look at things together? For me to give you the strength to succeed in your struggle?” Whether it's called temptations, sickness, failure, or exam success, there is an opportunity for everything to draw strength from the resurrected Christ. Christ does it.

But just because you believe in the Resurrection doesn't mean everything in your life will go well. But you, in spite of this, make an effort - firmly, with optimism, joy. When a heavy feeling seizes you, when it seems that you break down and lose heart, you will say: “God knows everything! Christ is Risen! So, since He is risen, I look into His eyes, and He gives me desire and says: “Read, fight, make an effort, you will succeed!” I do it, but in the end I get cut off in the exam. And Christ again says to me: “Look into my eyes! Do not lose heart, now there is another plane on which you will feel the power of My Resurrection - your failure.”

Yes, and there (we say) Christ is risen! Probably not everything is over, not everything is lost here. And it's amazing. The resurrection allows us to see endless possibilities, new opportunities that God gives us to experience.

I will tell you now something that has taken half of my life. Look into this something exceptional for me, I experienced it many times in my life, but it was enough to convince me that... However, let me tell you everything in order.

You often really want to have something in life, and you think that it will make you happy and joyful, and you say to yourself: “Only this (this person, money, house, job) will make me happy. Everything is decided, I want this and only this!” And it's not bad to wish for something: wish, but don't think that because you think that only this will make you happy, then God also has only this in mind. How many things can you think of that can make you happy? About two or three. And God is infinity, He is immense wealth, He is unique abundance, and He has colossal alternative solutions for everything. You, however, have a limited perception, and you say: “If this is in my life, then I will be happy, so I only want this, and I am afraid to think about anything else, because I feel that I am not ready to open up for other things, and why should I expect anything else?

Let me tell you this in a simpler way, with one classic example. Here someone meets a girl and says:

Everything is decided: it's her! She was made for me! If we don’t get to know her, don’t get along, and I don’t marry her, my life will lose all meaning. Everything will be over!

Or someone finds a new job and says:

This job is everything for me! If I don't work for her, I'll fall into despair!

God, looking at you, says: “How poor you are in your thinking! And the problem is that you think that I am also poor, just like you”

The same happens with a house, some kind of purchase. And God, looking at you, says:

How poor you are in your thinking! And the problem is not that you are poor, but that you think that I am also poor, just like you. You want to close Me in a narrow circle created by your mind, in a narrow circle of your mind, and you think that since there is only one thing in your mind, then I cannot give you any other happiness, and only through this girl, only through this profession, only through this car, only through this house I can make you happy. And I have endless solutions for you, endless proposals for your happiness.

However, you tell Him:

No no! I beg you, God! I can't rely on this Divine Infinity, I want to narrow things down! I want to think that happiness only comes through this hole I leave in my life!

It's not a bad thing to wish it - wish it: I'm just telling you so you know that if what you want doesn't happen, it doesn't mean the end of the world has come. And not only did the end of the world not come, but I think that it is then that all other endless solutions open up that you did not imagine and do not want to imagine, because you cannot stand such freedom, such wealth, such opportunities. You are used to closeness, constraint, fear: “I am afraid to see great things. I feel more secure in the dungeon of my will, in the plan, the mind, building a little hut for me.

God tells you:

I have palaces for you!

No, I beg you, do not confuse me with these palaces and such things, I have my own hut!

Of course, you say this not from humility, but from spiritual poverty and a narrow-minded understanding of life.

Let's not force God into schemes, think that we will be happy only as we imagine. It's good that you have thoughts, plans, because you are a person, but you say: “Lord, I think that this small circle will make me happy. If you feel the same way and agree with it, fine! And if you do not agree for any reason, Thy will be done! And the events to come will be much better.

I say this because things happen in life that you never imagined. I lived through it and went crazy with God's "surprises". When I thought that everything was bad and if I didn’t do something, then everything would collapse, and if I didn’t achieve this, then everything would end, suddenly God showed me how through the collapse of one new realities were formed, which I could not even imagine. Then I realized what an unbeliever I was.

We do not truly believe in God, and therefore today I will show you how much we refute this exclamation in our lives - “Christ is Risen!” I pronounce it, sing it, but I am not open and not ready, because I do not really believe in God, because if I believed in Him, I would wait for His “surprises” with wide eyes. However, I say, “I don't think God has surprises. It seems to me that He is as pathetic and miserable as my fantasy. And since I myself am like that, I think that God is like that too.

But God is not like that. I would like you to understand this, and I want to show you from my limited experience that there are good surprises ahead of you. Therefore, do not grab onto the earthly, do not be afraid to lose something, leave it all. If something does not work out for you freely, do not force the other, do not want it to be forcibly realized, for example, to maintain some kind of relationship when you see that they are not working out as they should. You go out of your way to keep them, and what's the point? Everything should develop comfortably, God is hiding there, and not in pressure and violence. Suddenly God sends something and you say, "My God, I didn't expect you to be so rich!" And God answers you: "That's why I told you that you were unfair to Me, because you did not understand Me."

So we will gradually understand God, His love, and from this we will calm down, love each other, feel loved by God, it will be easier for us to love others, and then everything will seem good to us - when you love, everything is beautiful, and love makes you look everything is different, intoxicating. And you look at the annoyance that your beloved gives you as an opportunity to show the warmth of your kindness and forgiveness even more.

Otherwise, 5 years of marriage pass, and you can no longer bear your husband. One woman told me:

I can't stand my husband, father!

Whom? Your husband, whom you love so much, whom you forgave everything and saw everything in a pink light? What happened to you?

I can't stand it!

What does he do?

Nothing. Just looking at it annoys me! If you could see how he chews! He's chugging! This makes me nervous!

She, who at first did not interfere with anything, now says so! She saw everything in pink. They went on excursions. He soiled a whole heap of shirts that needed to be ironed, and she told him: “My love, for you I will iron day and night! This is a joy for me!” And then tell him: “Get up and get out of here! Why did I go after you! Go to your mother! I made a mistake when I met you"?

And you ask yourself: where did love go, where was this gigantic eruption of love buried? How did resurrection become death again? Why?

It is necessary to nourish, update, renew, so that we do not get used in the bad sense of the word. And so that we don’t get used to it, you have to constantly get drunk, because you get drunk only once, and then you sober up, you start looking at things rudely again, and life really exhausts you. We are all annoying and burdensome. Therefore, renewal is needed, therefore every year we speak and experience events again and again (i.e. church holidays), therefore every week we remember Christ's Resurrection. There is a Resurrection for every Sunday Holy Liturgy, but every other Liturgy is Christ's Resurrection, so that we give a push to our heart and say to it: “Awake, receive new blood, receive life, experience Christ anew, feel this freshness, love your person as in the first time you met him, and look at everything in a Sunday way, light, humbly, humanly, Divinely and live your life beautifully.

Here is the answer to the question I was asked: “How can I explain the Resurrection of Christ to the person I love”? - Love him!

Let's live intelligently, live knowing why we live, live loving, forgiving, sharing our joy and sorrow, so that there is a person next to us and that we have shared feelings, so that we know that we are not one and the other us will understand. Here is the answer to the question you asked me: “How to explain the Resurrection of Christ to the person I love” - love him!

There is no need to tell him “Christ is risen” and prove apologetically that Christ is risen, since there are countless books on this subject, patristic quotations, many wonderful things, but he will not understand this. When he asked you about this, he rather wanted to see the love that came out of God's Tomb, to see what is said about, that "forgiveness, embrace, love shone to us from the Tomb."

I pray that day shines in your heart, light shines, hope shines. And again I say: everything will be much better in your life, nothing has ended yet, today you are crying, but tomorrow has not yet come. Good is coming - do not prejudge everything, do not live constantly in whining and grumbling, do not always want to experience the Crucified Heel and stay there. Because you cannot endure such great pain, and the purpose of this test is to awaken in you the lust and thirst for the Resurrection!

"Christ is Risen! Truly Risen!"

It is these words that sound very often this Sunday, because today is Easter, the most famous and bright Orthodox holiday.

On this day, Christ is risen! After all, this is the first real victory of life over death.

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Christ is risen! Christ is risen!

May these joyful sounds

Like the singing of angels from heaven

They will dispel anger, sorrow, torment!

Join all brotherly hands

Let's hug everyone! Christ is risen!

What is "Easter"?

Christians understand the word "Easter""transition from death to life, from earth to heaven." For forty days, believers observe the strictest fast and celebrate Easter in honor of Jesus' victory over death. Jewish Passover is pronounced like "Passover"(Hebrew word) and means "passed by, passed by." The roots of this word go back to the history of the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery.

The New Testament says that the destroyer will pass over those who accept Jesus. In some languages, the word is pronounced like this - "Pisha". This is an Aramaic name that has spread in some languages ​​​​of Europe and has survived to this day.

No matter how the word is pronounced, the essence of Easter does not change; for all believers, this is the most important celebration. A bright holiday that brings joy and hope to the hearts of believers all over the Earth.

"Christ on the Cross" by Francisco Zurbaran.

The history of the holiday before the birth of Christ, or Old Testament Easter

The holiday originated long before the birth of Christ, but the significance of the Easter holiday in those days was very great for the Jewish people. The story goes that the Jews were once held captive by the Egyptians. Slaves suffered from their masters a lot of bullying, troubles and oppression. But faith in God, hope for salvation and God's mercy always lived in their hearts.

"Lamentation of Christ". Sandro Botticelli.

On Easter day, joyfully playing,
The lark flew high
And in the blue sky, disappearing,
He sang the song of resurrection.

And that song was loudly repeated
And the steppe, and the hill, and the dark forest.
Wake up, earth, - they broadcast, -
Wake up: Your King, your God is Risen!

Wake up, mountains, valleys, rivers,
Praise the Lord from Heaven.
He conquered death forever -
Wake up and you, green forest.

Snowdrop, silver lily of the valley,
Violet - bloom again
And send up a fragrant hymn
To the one whose commandment is love.

Princess E. Gorchakova

Christ is risen. K.P. Bryullov. 1840s

Sketch for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. The intention was not carried out. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

One day a man named Moses came to them, who, with his brother, had been sent to their rescue. The Lord chose Moses to enlighten the Egyptian pharaoh and deliver the Jewish people from slavery. But no matter how hard Moses tried to convince Pharaoh to let the people go, freedom was not granted to them. The Egyptian pharaoh and his people did not believe in God, worshiping only their deities and relying on the help of sorcerers. To prove the existence and power of the Lord, nine terrible plagues were brought down on the Egyptian people.

Appearance of Christ to the disciples after the Resurrection. F. I. Ivanov. 1850

No bloody rivers, no toads, no midges, no flies, no darkness, no thunder - none of this could have happened if the ruler had let the people go with their cattle. The last, tenth plague, like the previous ones, punished the pharaoh and his people, but did not affect the Jews. Moses warned that every family should slaughter a one-year-old unblemished male lamb. To anoint the doors of their houses with the blood of an animal, bake a lamb and eat it with the whole family.

Christ among the disciples after the resurrection. I.E. Repin. 1886

At night, all the first-born males were killed in houses among people and animals. Only the houses of the Jews, where there was a bloody mark, were not affected by the trouble. Since then, "Easter" means - passed by, passed by. This execution greatly frightened the pharaoh, and he released the slaves with all their herds. The Jews went to the sea, where the water broke open, and they calmly set off along its bottom. Pharaoh wanted to break his promise again and rushed after them, but the water swallowed him up.

The Jews began to celebrate the liberation from slavery and the passing of executions by their families, calling the holiday Easter. The history and significance of the Passover holiday are captured in the Bible book "Exodus".

Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene. A. E Egorov. 1818

Easter according to the New Testament

On Israeli soil, the virgin Mary was born Jesus Christ, who was destined to save human souls from the slavery of hell. At the age of thirty, Jesus began to preach, telling people about the laws of God. But three years later he was crucified along with other unwanted authorities on the cross, which was installed on Mount Calvary. It happened after the Jewish Passover, on Friday, which was later dubbed Passion. This event complements the meaning of the Easter holiday with new meaning, traditions and attributes.

Vasily Igorevich Nesterenko. crucifixion. 1999.

Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin. Crucifixion on the cross by the Romans. 1887.

Christ, like a lamb, was slain, but his bones remained intact, and this became His sacrifice for the sins of all mankind.

Albrecht Altdorfer. crucifixion. Christ on the cross. Mary and John.

Vasily Igorevich Nesterenko. The Last Supper. Patriarchal refectory of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. 1997.

A little more history

On the eve of the crucifixion, on Thursday, took place Last Supper, where Jesus introduced the bread as his body and the wine as his blood. Since then, the meaning of the Easter holiday has not changed, but the Eucharist has become a new Easter meal. At first, the holiday was weekly. Friday was the day of mourning and the beginning of fasting, and Sunday was the day of joy.

Artist Pavel Popov. The Last Supper.

In 325, at the First Ecumenical Council, Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the spring full moon. The Russian Orthodox Church uses Julian calendar. To calculate what day Easter falls in a certain year, you need to make a rather complicated calculation. But for ordinary laity, a calendar of dates for the holiday has been compiled for decades to come. For a long time of the existence of the holiday, it has acquired traditions, which are still adhered to in families, and signs.

Philippe de Champaigne. The Last Supper.

According to tradition, Jesus Christ, after the Resurrection, came to the apostles at the time when the apostles were having a meal. It happened on Maundy Thursday. The middle place was not occupied, and in the middle of the table lay the bread intended for Him. Over time, a tradition appeared on the festive Sunday to leave bread in the temple. And left it on a special table. Just like the apostles did.

Juan de Juanes. The Last Supper.

The Last Supper. Repin

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Easter in Russia is one of the main holidays, even for those people who rarely go to church. Today, in the era of high technology and urbanization, among generations that prefer a computer to live communication, the church is slowly losing its power over the hearts and souls of people. But practically everyone, regardless of age and strength of faith, knows what Lent is. Traditions are passed on by older generations in families. It is rare that anyone decides to adhere to the entire post, most often only in the last week people somehow follow the rules. For 40 days, believers must eat without eating animal products (and on some days fasting is more strict), not drink alcohol, pray, confess, take communion, do good, not slander.

Lapshin Georgy Aleksandrovich (1885-1950) "Easter" 1920 (lived in Paris since 1924)

Smirnov Boris Vasilyevich (1881-1954) "Easter Celebration" 1918

Great Lent ends with Holy Week. The service at Easter has a special meaning and scope. In modern Russia, services are broadcast live on central channels.

Yulia Kuzenkova. Easter

In every church, even in the smallest village, candles are lit all night and chants are sung. Millions of parishioners all over the country stay up all night, pray, attend services, light candles, bless food and water. And fasting ends on Sunday, after the completion of all church rites. Those who fast sit down at the table and celebrate Easter.

Bednoshey Daniil Panteleevich (1924-1989) "Easter still life" 1979

Easter greeting

From childhood, we teach children that when greeting a person on this holiday, you need to say: "Christ is Risen!" And respond to these words: "Truly Risen!"

Xenia Shafranovskaya. Easter

To learn more about what this is connected with, you need to turn to the Bible. The essence of Easter is the passage of Jesus to his Father. The story goes that Jesus was crucified on Friday (Good Friday). The body was taken down from the cross and buried. A coffin is a cave carved into the rock, closed by a huge stone. The bodies of the dead (there were still victims) were wrapped in fabrics and rubbed with incense. But they did not have time to perform the ceremony with the body of Jesus, since according to Jewish laws it is strictly forbidden to work on the Sabbath.

Sunday morning

Women - followers of Christ - on Sunday morning went to his tomb to perform the ceremony themselves. An angel came down to them and told them that Christ had risen. Easter from now on will be the third day - the day of the resurrection of Christ.

Entering the tomb, the women were convinced of the words of the angel and brought this message to the apostles. And they communicated this joyful news to everyone. All believers and non-believers should have known that the impossible had happened, that what Jesus said had happened - Christ had risen.

From the pronunciation of these two words in different ways, the essence does not change: that Christ is risen, that Christ is risen tells us that the feast of Easter has come (the Resurrection of the Lord or the Lord will also be correct). The main thing is that these words should come from the heart, and not as a formality, in which case it is better to remain silent.

In Church Slavonic, Christ is Risen! And in modern Russian, Christ is Risen!

Both options are correct.

Only I noticed that people who visit the temple more often are more accustomed to the Resurrection.

And others often use Voskres

It is better to pronounce as is customary among ancient Russian and Slavic Christians Christ is risen, which is interesting for Armenians a little differently, they say Christ is risen from the dead and get the answer: Blessed be the resurrection of Christ!.

It is most correct to say Christ is Risen, since it is this spelling and pronunciation that is used in church records. In everyday Russian conversation, you can speak without e at the end, but if you adhere to church customs, then Christ is Risen is still more common and correct.

There are two answers, one according to the rules of the modern language and the second according to the old one. We say resurrected, but before we said resurrection. Choose the option that you hear the most. My personal opinion that Christ is risen sounds too cold and it would be better to use the second option Christ is risen. But there will be no mistake if you say the first option.

There can be no concept of correctness or incorrectness in this greeting Easter phrase.

If we say Christ is Risen, thereby emphasizing the special significance of words, using the effect of antiquity, that is, a kind of eternity. The Church willingly uses flavor of the Church Slavonic language exactly because of this reason. If a priest begins to preach in the modern technocratic language, then we will also understand him perfectly, since there are almost no illiterates now. However, one cannot understand the rejection of the color of antiquity, which is designed to plunge us into the gospel times.

Form Christ is risen is also quite acceptable, understandable and familiar.

It should be emphasized that the difference in word forms does not affect the effectiveness of any prayer or other church phrase.

You know, whoever you believe in, I think it doesn't give a damn whether you put an extra letter at the end of a word or not. If you believe, faith is embodied in thought forms, in energy, in motives, and not in a literal equivalent. It is not necessary to comply with such formalities. You don't pass an exam to the rector for knowledge of the Church Slavonic language.

Both options are correct. The most commonly used is Christ is Risen. But many deeply believers and, having heard how this phrase is pronounced by the priest in the church, consider it more correct to pronounce this phrase in Old Slavonic Christ is risen.

It depends on what language you will pronounce it in if in Russian, then Christ is risen, and if in Slavonic, in which most prayers are written, then Christ is risen

Easter greeting goes back centuries, back in apostolic times and initially this greeting sounded only like Christ is Risen!, as well as the answer to it Truly Risen!, but time passed, the rules changed and the ending e remained in the old church language.

We, the laity, switched to secular language, which is more accessible both in writing and in pronunciation. Many old words, although they have not lost their meaning, have partially changed.

If we take the word Resurrection, then it began to be pronounced in a new way as Resurrection.

It is difficult to say how to pronounce it correctly. If an Orthodox Christian observes the proper old traditions, then of course he will say Christ is risen!, Well, those who are subject to more modern rules of the Russian language will adhere to the expression without the ending e.

Therefore, you should not bother much in choosing the right greeting and there is no answer to it. Both pronunciations will be correct here, and each believer himself has the right to choose, based solely on his sympathy for one or another pronunciation.



The greeting of believers with the phrase Christ is Risen and the answer Truly Risen on Easter week has its roots in the apostolic times. In the Gospel of Matthew, Mark already mentions that this greeting was used. Now all Christians use this greeting for the great feast of Easter. In Russia and some other countries, it is customary to use Christ in everyday life, while in the vast majority of Christian countries it is used only in church and only during divine services.

It is correct to use the expression Christ is Risen in Russian, it is more in line with modern standards. However, in the Church Slavonic language there is an expression Christ is Risen and Truly Risen. The church does not give clear rules on this matter, therefore it is quite common to use both greetings.

On the day of Holy Easter, it is customary to greet believers with the words: Christ is risen. This has been customary since ancient times. But one can also say, as one often hears now: Christ is risen. It turns out that both versions of the greeting will be correct.