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“John Chrysostom (attributed to) - Easter Sermon (Paschal Homily)”
A fine statement of faith in Christ's resurrection, often heard at Easter (Pascha) in Orthodox Churches
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Relevant
books
Many
Chrysostom
translations See also below STUDIES
J.N.D. Kelly The Story of John Chrysostom -----------
Hagit Amirav
Rhetoric and Tradition: John Chrysostom on Noah and the Flood (Traditio Exegetica Graeca, 12) ----------- Chrysostomus Baur
John Chrysostom and His Time: Volume 1: Antioch ----------- Chrysostomus Baur
John Chrysostom and His Time, Vol. 2: Constantinople ----------- Duane A. Garrett ----------- Blake Goodall ----------- Peter Gorday -----------
Aideen M. Hartney John Chrysostom and the Transformation of the City ----------- Robert Allen Krupp ----------- Mel Lawrenz
The Christology of John Chrysostom -----------
Blake Leyerle Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual Marriage -----------
Jaclyn LaRae Maxwell Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch -----------
Margaret Mary Mitchell Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation ----------- Robert Louis Wilken
John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late 4th Century ----------- TRANSLATIONS
Gus George Christo On Repentance and Almsgiving (The Fathers of the Church) ----------- Thomas Aquinas Goggin
Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88 (The Fathers of the Church, 41) -----------
Robert C. Hill Eight Sermons on the Book of Genesis ----------- David G. Hunter ----------- M.C.W. Laistner -----------
Wendy Mayer John Chrysostom (The Early Church Fathers) -----------
Mayer and Bronwen The Cult of the Saints (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics) -----------
Graham Neville Six Books on the Priesthood (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series) -----------
? Catherine P. Roth On Wealth and Poverty -----------
? David Anderson On Marriage and Family Life ----------- Margaret A Schatkin ----------- Sally Shore
On Virginity Against Remarriage (Studies in Women and Religion, V. 9) -----------
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If you are devout and love God, enjoy this beautiful
and radiant festival. If you are a loyal servant, enter rejoicing into the joy
of the Lord. If you are weary with fasting, now take your reward. If you worked from
the first hour, receive today what is rightly owing to you. If you came after
the third hour, celebrate the feast with thanksgiving. If you only appeared
after the sixth hour, don't be troubled by doubt. For nothing is lost. If you
delayed until the ninth hour, come without any wavering. If you appeared only at
the eleventh hour, don't be worried about your slowness. Our Lord is generous
and welcomes the last just as he does the first. He gives rest to those who have
worked from the eleventh hour just as to those who have worked from the first.
He has compassion for the last and he cares for the first. He is generous to the
former and he shows favour to the latter. He accepts the work done and welcomes
the sense of purpose. He honours the action and praises the intention. So, come
all of you into the joy of our Lord - those who are first and those who are
second - and receive your reward. Rich and poor, dance for joy with each other.
Whether you are self-controlled or more relaxed honour the day. Whether you are
fasting or not fasting rejoice today. The table is full, so everybody take great
pleasure in it. There is an abundance of good meat - no one is to go away
hungry. All of you are to enjoy this wealth of goodness. No one is to lament
their poverty, for the kingdom belonging to everybody has appeared. No one is to
bewail their shortcomings, for mercy rose up from the tomb. No one is to fear
death, for the death of the Saviour set us free. He brought death to an end
while he was in its clutches. He disarmed Hades when he descended to Hades. He
made Hades bitter when it tasted his flesh. Isaiah prophesied this when he
cried: “Hades was made bitter”. It was made bitter when it met you in the
depths. It was made bitter; for it was rendered impotent. It was made bitter; for it was mocked. It
was made bitter; for it was put to death. It was made bitter; for it was
overpowered. It was made bitter; for it was bound in chains. It took a body, but
actually found it to be God. It took earth and met heaven. It took what it saw,
and has fallen as a result of what it failed to see.
“Where, death, is your
sting? Where, Hades, is your victory?” Christ is risen and demons have fallen.
Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life can be lived.
Christ is risen and no one who is dead is in the tomb. For Christ raised from
the dead became the first-fruits of those who had fallen asleep. To him be glory
and power for ever and ever. Amen |
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Easter Sermon
Paschal Homily
original Greek text
Christus Victor
Hell embittered
Pasch
John Chrysostom in Greek with English Translation
Migne Greek Text
Patrologiae Graecae Cursus Completus
Patrologia Graeca
