Sunday and icon. Keno M.

Christ is risen! Truly? If Christ is risen as the beginning of our own resurrection, then this applies to us all believers and unbelievers, rich and poor, sick and healthy, all tribes and peoples. To raise the question, albeit so uncertain, does this not mean to open the door of his heart to him, meet the raging gaze of the risen? In any case, then we will avoid the reproach of the great spiritual mentor Isaac Sirin (VII century), for whom "all sins are only as of the dust before God, the only sin is to be insensitive to the risen." Nowadays, when the belief is spreading into reincarnation, when a significant number of people of Christian origin are looking for their identity in other religions and when an increasingly increasing part of society denies resurrection, one cannot circumvent the final meaning of human existence. At a time when a person denies death and masks it, making monstrous efforts to postpone the payment term, which, as he knows, is still inevitable, a certificate of resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, that is, our resurrection in the coming world, deserves himself Great attention. How many baptized today are moving away from Christianity, not knowing that they are cutting their roots, losing a significant part of their heritage?! However, one can understand the renunciation of certain people, these are the fruits of those spiritual barriers that we will not discuss here. What does it mean “to be a Christian”, what is the cornerstone of Christianity, often perceived in an oc noxure? Isn't it enough to pose this question to reveal a deep misunderstanding? Therefore, the testimony of the resurrection as the point of convergence and the heart of the Sacrament of the Christian faith often finds the listener by surprise. Resurrection, as an epicenter of Christianity, is clothed with incomparable significance in the depths of the Orthodox Church. The liturgical life finds its peak in the Easter celebration, in the "holiday of the holidays", in the "Celebration from the celebrations", for "now the whole is full of light, heaven and earth and the underworld." The resurrection icon naturally represents the point at which everything converges, the center from which the great holidays and their icons are rotating and around.