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Ἀναστάσεως
ἡμέρα,
καὶ
λαμπρυνθῶμεν
τῇ
πανηγύρει,
καὶ
ἀλλήλους
περιπτυξώμεθα.
Εἴπωμεν
ἀδελφοί,
καὶ
τοῖς
μισοῦσιν
ἡμᾶς·
Συγχωρήσωμεν
πάντα
τῇ
Ἀναστάσει,
καὶ
οὕτω
βοήσωμεν· Χριστὸς ἀνέστη ἐκ νεκρῶν, θανάτῳ θάνατον πατήσας, καὶ τοῖς ἐν τοῖς μνήμασι, ζωὴν χαρισάμενος. |
The day of Resurrection; let us be radiant for the festival, and let us
embrace one another. Let us say, brethren, even to those that hate us,
‘Let us forgive all things on the Resurrection’, and so let us cry, ‘Christ has risen from the dead: by death he has trampled on death, and to those in the graves he has given life’. |
Welcome to
Anastasis
the web pages of Archimandrite Ephrem
On these pages you will find, in the main, translations of our Orthodox liturgical and patristic texts. Most of the latter are of texts which have not been previously translated into English, or which are only available in rare or outdated versions.
As the texts on these pages change frequently, I would ask visitors to link to this opening page only. In this way you will find what is available more easily. I have tried deliberately to keep things simple, by not using frames and other elegant refinements.
Click on the book icon to be taken
to the Table of Contents for the whole site
The date on which each page was last updated appears at the bottom of each page, but if any page has been updated or added this first page and the Table of contents will also be updated.
Some visitors to these pages have pointed out that when printed out in black and white only, the distinction between text and rubrics is lost. This can be overcome if the pages are saved into a word processor and then edited, rather than being printed directly from the screen. The original text of nearly all these pages was prepared in Microsoft Word.
REMINDER
Practical advice for
visitors to these pages.
Many of these pages now contain a certain amount of
polytonic Greek.
These have mostly been prepared using Palatino Linotype.
This font is standard with
Microsoft Word, and is one of the few that can display polytonic Greek.
Your
browser should, therefore, display any Greek text correctly.
You may need to change the Encoding, on the View menu, to: Greek (Windows)
Some of my more recent translations of our liturgical texts contain notes, including biblical and patristic cross references, as well as discussions of rare or interesting words and expressions. For this reason I shall normally put them up in both HTML and PDF formats. In this way they can easily be downloaded for liturgical use without footnotes.
RECENT
There are now thirteen parts to the simple commentary on the Liturgy on the Islington web pages.
Links
Official website of the Archdiocese of
Thyateira and Great Britain:
www.thyateira.org.uk
Parish of St Anthony and St John the Baptist, Islington
Unless stated otherwise, all texts and translations on these pages are (c) by Archimandrite Ephrem.
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If you have any personal comments or suggestions please
send us an
ephrem@chorlton.com
'My
tongue is the pen of a rapid writer'
The search facility below, from Google, is highly recommended and will rapidly find almost any word on the following pages.