In this article we will look at how to correctly say, answer and write Christ is risen.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest fact in human history. The Resurrection of the Lord is a religious holiday that many Christians know as Easter. This is a special day when many Christians gather with their families to celebrate. On this day, it is customary to go to church, pray, eat special food, and even greet each other in a special way, saying Christ is risen!
The meaning of the phrases “Christ is risen” and “truly risen”
The phrases are set expressions and are used in greetings during Easter, which is traditionally used 40 days before the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord:
- Christ is Risen! - Truly risen!
Symbolizes the resurrection of Jesus after the physical death of his body. This also has a deep ritual meaning, since the resurrection is a symbol of the atonement for the sins of mankind through the sacrifice of the Son of God, and the appearance of Jesus after death is the eternal life of the soul after death during a righteous earthly life.
The first greeter (traditionally the youngest in age or rank) says: “ Christ is risen!” “, - he communicates the good news. And in response he receives confirmation of this fact from an elder (by age or rank): “ Truly he is risen!” ". This is how Christians around the world share joy in memory of the great miracle that changed the life of mankind.
Immutable rules of Easter greetings
Easter greetings have their own subtleties
Probably, every person at least once in his life, if he did not participate in the process of Christ himself, then observed it from the side. However, there are people who are stumped by basic questions:
- at what moment is it appropriate to say the cherished words;
- which of the two parishioners meeting on the street should do this first;
- does it matter who is in front of you - a layman or a clergyman;
- Is it necessary to kiss your interlocutor;
- How to exchange modest Easter Sunday gifts?
Let's figure out what a proper Easter greeting should be.
When is it appropriate to sound the traditional greeting of Christ's Resurrection?
Most often we say it on the first day of Easter week, but this can be done throughout the week until Krasnaya Gorka when meeting people whom we have not yet seen after Easter.
The first holiday greetings are heard at the table set for breakfast.
Regarding what moment will be most appropriate for the famous “Christ is Risen”, then, if we are talking about household members, according to custom, Easter greetings and answers to them are heard at the table during the morning meal. One subtlety, almost forgotten these days: the younger members of the family are supposed to start the ritual of christening.
If you meet a friend or acquaintance on the street, replace the holiday greeting that sounds on other days with “Hello!” or “Good afternoon!”
Who is supposed to pronounce the solemn words first?
When two people with a noticeable difference in age meet, the same rule applies as at the family table: the younger one should take the initiative, while the older one should respond to the Easter greeting: “Truly He is Risen!” But when meeting peers, anyone can say hello first.
Does turning to a priest have its own characteristics?
Yes. If you meet a priest, congratulate him on the holiday, but don’t forget at the end the usual “Christ is Risen!” add: “Bless, father!” and fold your hands on top of each other, palms up - after answering the greeting, the priest will touch them and say: “God bless.”
The blessing received on such a day will bring you special joy
Is kissing three times an unshakable rule of Christhood?
Or maybe we can abstain from it, because during Easter Sunday we have to communicate with different people, including those we barely know?
No, we should not abandon the tradition of kissing our interlocutor: it contains a symbol of our joy from the accomplished event and the love that people should feel for each other, as the Savior feels for humanity. Moreover, the number of kisses should be three times, in honor of the Holy Trinity. However, with people you don’t know well, it is enough to symbolically touch your vis-a-vis cheeks – also three times.
If you are planning to give your interlocutor a colored Easter egg, Easter cake or other Easter-appropriate gift, give it at the same time as your greetings. This way you will emphasize the connection between the gift and the bright holiday.
Rule
We will determine how to correctly write together or separately, as well as with a capital or small letter.
Together or separately?
The difficulty in writing is caused by the word “truly”, which, by analogy with the preposition “in”, is supposed to be written separately.
To check we use the rule:
It is correct to write together “ truly ”
With a capital letter or with a small letter?
The phrase “ Christ is Risen ” is always written with a capital letter, since Christ is a proper name. The word “resurrected” is a common noun, meaning action and therefore written with a small letter. In some cases, due to its special importance, you can also write the second word with a capital letter; this is not entirely correct from an academic point of view, but it shows the author’s attitude towards this phrase and the meaning it carries.
The phrase “ truly is risen ” in the middle of the sentence is written with a small letter, since both words are common nouns. In practice, this phrase often occurs at the beginning of a sentence or as direct speech, which necessitates its capitalization.
Do we use commas or quotes?
Commas and quotation marks are not used in writing, but punctuation marks may appear in accordance with other punctuation standards.
Features of the Easter service
The Easter service stands out from a number of other church celebrations due to the especially magnificent decoration of the church, the festive attire of the clergy and the joyful mood that is inherent on this day to all parishioners who came to take part in the service. In the church the singing of stichera and Easter canons sounds, from the bell tower comes the gospel filled with jubilation, on the altar the curtain, drawn back contrary to custom, flutters, on the lectern lies artos - bread prepared according to an ancient recipe, and the fragrant smoke of the censer envelops the icons, priests, parishioners...
But the main thing that distinguishes the service of Bright Sunday is, perhaps, the rite of Christification, which concludes it. At this time, in the process of reading the festive canon, the priest walks around the temple several times, proclaiming the Easter greeting to the parishioners: “Christ is Risen!”, and they unanimously echo him: “Truly He is Risen!” And they become closer to each other, united not only by a common faith, but also by a common joy.
“I am risen” what part of speech?
Voskres is an aorist in Church Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic (a tense form of the verb denoting a completed one-time action performed in the past).
Voskres is the past tense of the verb “to resurrect” in modern Russian. Therefore, the church greeting at the everyday level is often replaced with a more familiar form without loss of meaning: “Christ is risen ,” “truly risen .”
In writing, it is customary to use the form with the ending e - “ Risen ”.
It smelled like Easter in the spring...
In the past, especially, no one stayed away from Easter - how could one not be involved in this big spring holiday, so important, so significant? And therefore, in the poems of that time, the theme of Christ and Easter sounds quite often. Poems about Easter by Russian poets are selected in this section.
For the resurrection of Christ
My soul, rejoice and sing, Heir of heaven: Christ is risen, your Savior, truly risen!
So! Hell fainted before the Mighty One: From the chains of graves, From the night of the death of the Son, God raised you up with Him.
From the eternal light the Lord Descended into the habitation of darkness, He clothed himself in dust, He clothed Himself in flesh - May we not perish!
Ineffable love, height of all sacraments! For us, He shed His holy blood from the cross.
With His purest blood He redeemed us, the fallen, from torment and the grave, from the snares and power of dark forces.
Christ is risen, my Savior is truly risen. Rejoice soul; He opened the gates of heaven before you! V. K. Kuchelbecker
I wish you endless happiness, bright skies, bright sun...
Praise be to the Risen One
Praise the Lord from heaven and sing unceasingly: The world is filled with His miracles and unspeakable glory.
Praise the host of ethereal forces And the angelic faces: From the darkness of the sorrowful graves a great Light has shone.
Praise the Lord from heaven, Hills, cliffs, mountains! Hosanna! The fear of death has disappeared, Our gaze brightens.
Praise God, the distant seas and the boundless ocean! May all sadness and hopeless murmur be silenced!
Praise the Lord from heaven and praise, people! Christ is risen! Christ is risen! And trampled death forever! Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov
Blagovest
I waited for him with understandable impatience, Keeping the holy delight in my soul, And through the harmony of prayer singing, He shook me with the thunder of the sky.
Since ancient times, the Prophet spoke to us with the voice of heaven over the Russian land; So a ray of sun in the spring illuminated the path of nature to blossom.
To you, O God, to your throne, Where truth, truth is brighter than our words, I follow your path according to your word, What I hear through the ringing of bells. K. Balmont
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How the sun shines brightly, How the depths of the sky are bright, How joyfully and loudly the bells are buzzing.
Incessantly in God's churches they sing: “Christ is risen!” And the sounds of a wondrous song reach the heavens. A. N. Pleshcheev
Bells
The booming sounds of bells fly away into the firmament of heaven, beyond the meadows, beyond the free steppes, beyond the dense dark forest. A singing wave flows with a billion joyful sounds... All the wondrous, sweet moments The Easter night is full, In them, in those sounds - a moment of forgiveness, The end of vain anger. Boundless humility And a golden crown of love, They contain endless prayers, wondrous words of hymns. They contain eternal sorrow and tears, washed away by the blood of the Divine. In them is the mysterious delight of the earth And the holy delight of heaven, In them the Immortal and Only God has truly risen! Lydia Charskaya
Christ is risen!
Christ is risen! Again, with the dawn, the shadow of the long night is thinning, Again a new day has lit up above the earth for a new life.
The thickets of the forest are still turning black; Still in its damp shadow, lakes stand like mirrors And breathe the freshness of the night;
Fogs are still floating in the blue valleys... But look: The fiery rays of dawn are already burning on the mountain ice floes!
They are still shining on high. Unattainable, like a dream, Where the voices of the earth fall silent and beauty is immaculate.
But, approaching every hour from behind the scarlet peaks, they will sparkle, flaring up, both into the darkness of the forests and into the depths of the valleys;
They will rise in the desired beauty and announce from the heights of heaven that the promised day has come, that God has truly risen! I. A. Bunin
Easter in St. Petersburg
The dining room smelled of hyacinths, Ham, Easter cake and Madeira, The smell of spring Easter, the Orthodox Russian faith.
It smelled like sunshine, window paint, and lemon from a woman’s body, like an inspired and joyful Easter, which was ringing like bells all around.
And at the monument to Nicholas, in front of Bolshaya Morskaya itself, where there was a pavement at the ends, there was a smell of tarred boards.
Even if it was absurd, funny, and stupid It was in my young years, But my heart was embraced by That which is characteristic only of Russia! I. Severyanin
Examples of use and citations
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– Sergei Prokhorovich answered piously. They said Christ. Then he kissed the children, promising to send them an egg the next day... Nikolai Heinze. " Truly He is Risen
!"I vividly remember Misha on that Easter Sunday, when after church, according to Orthodox Russian custom, with the exclamation “ Christ
is Risen
!” It’s customary to kiss and he kissed one adult girl much longer than me...Olga Chekhova. "Hitler's Secret Movie Star Role"
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the history of the holiday. How Jesus Christ was resurrected.
What sources describe the events associated with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Gospel according to Mark
Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Gospel of Matthew
Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Gospel of Luke
Are there any records of references to the Ascension of the Lord in the works of eyewitnesses of Christ?
Everyone knows the story associated with the Resurrection of Jesus, but few know the details of this event, although the holiday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the main one for Christians.
It is in honor of the Resurrection of Christ that all Christians celebrate Easter for forty days.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
What sources describe the events associated with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?
The main sources that describe the events associated with the Resurrection of Jesus:
— Gospel of Matthew. Chapters 27, 28
— Gospel of Mark. Chapters 15, 16
- Gospel of Luke. Chapter 24
The word Gospel is translated from Greek as “good news” about the coming of the Kingdom of God.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Gospel according to Mark
The story of Jesus' resurrection began with his trial and crucifixion on the Friday before Passover.
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
Jesus, crucified on the cross, died about three hours after lunch.
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Christ and Salome and other disciples of Christ were present during the execution.
The Descent of Jesus Christ from the Cross
In order not to overshadow the Jewish holiday of Passover (Easter), the Jewish high priests and Pontius Pilate instructed one of their high priests, a rich man from the city of Arimathea, named Joseph, to take the body of Jesus and bury him. According to the Bible, Joseph and his assistant removed Jesus' body from the cross and buried it in Joseph's crypt.
But most likely, given Joseph’s rank, and he was one of the leaders of the Sanidrin, all these actions were carried out not by him personally, but by a funeral team from the local guard, but under his leadership.
It is interesting that none of the disciples of Jesus, neither Mary Magdalene nor the mother of Jesus took part in the funeral of the Lord.
Jesus Christ was buried in a similar grave
Having removed the body of Jesus from the cross, Joseph wrapped a shroud around Christ and buried Jesus in a cave that evening, then rolled a stone to the entrance to the cave and returned to Jerusalem.
Mary Magdalene and his mother Mary watched from afar where Jesus was buried.
The cave where Jesus was buried was in Joseph's garden, next to Golgotha, where Christ was crucified.
The next morning, remembering Jesus' prediction that he would rise on the third day, the high priests went to Pilate and asked him to place a guard at the cave so that Christ's followers could not secretly steal Jesus' body.
To guard the cave, Pontius Pilate assigned guards and ordered it (the cave) to be sealed.
Myrrh-Bearing Women
On the third day after the funeral of Jesus, early Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and the mother of Christ Mary of James, having bought aromatic oils, went to the cave to anoint the body of the deceased.
Approaching the cave, the women were worried about who would move the heavy stone that was covering the entrance to the cave.
But when they approached the cave, they were surprised to find that there were no guards who were supposed to guard the cave, and the stone covering the entrance had been rolled away.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Angel of the Lord
When the women entered the cave, they saw that the body of Christ was not there, and on the right side of the bed was sitting a young man dressed in white clothes.
The women were frightened and froze, but the young man immediately turned to them:
“You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, crucified; He has risen, He is not here. This is the place where He was laid. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; There you will see Him, just as He told you."
The frightened women ran out of the cave and returned to Jerusalem, but, overcome with horror, they did not tell anyone anything, neither about the disappearance of the body, nor about the young man in white robes.
However, just as Jesus predicted, he rose again early on Sunday morning.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
The first person to whom he appeared was Mary Magdalene.
Appearing before Mary Magdalene, he cast out seven demons from her.
After which Mary Magdalene went to the disciples of Jesus and told them that Jesus had risen and that she had seen Him alive, but the disciples did not believe Mary’s story.
Then Jesus appeared in another form to two of the disciples on the road.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
They told about the meeting with the Teacher, but the rest of the students again did not believe them either.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Then in the evening Jesus appeared to the remaining eleven of his disciples and reproached them for not believing in his resurrection and said to them:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; and whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will take snakes; and if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them; They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
After the conversation with the disciples, Jesus went to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, and the disciples went to preach.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
This concludes the story of the resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew tells about the events associated with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ with slightly different details than the Gospel according to Mark.
In the Gospel of Matthew there are earthquakes, a solar eclipse, and the resurrection of the dead:
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
“Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up the ghost. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook; and the stones dissipated; and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were resurrected, and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many.”
Further, until the moment when early on Sunday morning Mary Magdalene and the mother of Jesus went to the cave to anoint the body of Jesus with incense, the descriptions of events in both gospels coincide.
But near the cave, events are already happening somewhat differently.
When Mary, the mother of James and Josiah (mother of Christ), and the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached the cave, a great earthquake occurred due to the fact that the Angel of the Lord who descended from heaven came, rolled away the stone from the door of the tomb and sat on it:
“His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing was white as snow.”
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Horror gripped everyone: the guards guarding the cave and the women.
The angel turned to the women and said:
“Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified; He is not here - He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay, and go quickly, tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see Him there"
The women, making sure that Jesus’ deathbed was empty, went back to Jerusalem to tell the apostles about the resurrection of the Teacher.
Eleven disciples went to Galilee to meet the Teacher there, on the mountain.
Not all the disciples believed that their teacher Jesus was before them.
As Jesus approached, he addressed his disciples:
“All authority in heaven and on earth is mine. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
This concludes the story of the resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Gospel of Luke
In the Gospel of Luke in the 24th chapter, the women also on Sunday morning came to the cave to the tomb of Christ with prepared spices and also found the stone rolled away from the entrance to the cave.
But when they entered the cave, not a young man appeared before them, but two men in shining clothes.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
They, just like the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, told them that Jesus had risen and was waiting for them in Galilee,
But even here the women did not believe the messengers.
However, in the Gospel of Luke, the Apostle Peter is present in the cave, who approaches the Holy Sepulcher and sees only the linens lying there.
Apostle Peter
The following describes the events when two disciples meet Jesus on the road and do not recognize him for a long time, and only after he reclined with them and broke bread with them did they realize that they had spent the whole day in the company of Jesus:
“And as He reclined with them, He took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He became invisible to them"
Further, upon returning to Jerusalem, they found together the eleven Apostles who said that the Lord had truly risen and appeared to Simon. And they told about what had happened on the way, and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of bread.
And at that moment Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them:
"Peace to you"
The apostles were confused and afraid, thinking that they saw a spirit.
But Jesus convinced them that he was their blood, and then he ate baked fish and honeycomb with them.
“And he took it and ate before them.”
Next, Jesus led the disciples out of Jerusalem to Bethany, then, raising his hands, began to bless the disciples and began to move away from them and ascend to heaven.
The disciples bowed to Jesus and returned to Jerusalem in a festive mood.
This concludes the story of the Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.
Are there any records of references to the Ascension of the Lord in the works of eyewitnesses of Christ?
No, in the works of eyewitnesses of Christ there is not a single record where there would be any mention of the Ascension of the Lord. All references to the Ascension of the Lord were not written by eyewitnesses and in a later period.
