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He is risen!

“Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for to such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mark 10:14

Sunday, April 30, 2017 Volume 5, Issue 18

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Do you have a favorite story you

like to hear again and again? Do you ask your

parents to read a book to you over and over?

Two weeks ago, we celebrated the great feast of

Pascha (Easter), when our Lord Jesus Christ rose

from the dead! On that day, we heard the story of

the sad women, who came to His tomb. They

brought nice-smelling myrrh for His body. They

wanted to do something to honor Jesus. But when

they came, they saw an angel who told them, “He

has risen, He is not here!”

We heard those wonderful words two weeks ago, but we like to hear the

story again and again! Today, we hear the Gospel about the myrrh-bearing

women again. For 40 days, we say “Christ is risen!” to each other. And on

every Sunday of the year, we hear hymns about the Resurrection. We

Christians love to hear this favorite story of ours. Why? Because it’s true!

We love to hear about Christ’s resurrection, because it means everything

to us. When our Lord rose from the dead, He opened heaven for us. Now,

we can hope and pray that one day we can be with Christ in heaven for-

ever. And now you can tell other people this favorite story of yours too!

Christ is risen!

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Orthodox Christian Network

Say “Christ is Risen!” in Aleut!

(a native language in Alaska)

Kristus aq ungwektaq! Kristus aq ungwektaq! Kristus aq ungwektaq! Kristus aq ungwektaq!

“Truly He is risen” is:

Pichinuq ungwektaq! Pichinuq ungwektaq! Pichinuq ungwektaq! Pichinuq ungwektaq!

Can you say it?

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Can you find these words in the jumble? CHRISTIAN

FEAST

HEAVEN

IRENE

LICINIUS

MYRRH

PEACE

RESURRECTION

STORY

TOMB

G O P T P Q F H M C R B X F O

J E O E B D E R H O E I U E F

X M O L A P P R M Q S L B A I

B U G R D C I Y T R U E R S H

N P C M G S E M T X R E B T N

I E C Y T I D Z A Z R D Z B X

F F V I D Y A M K K E U I S F

L N A A R A X M V E C A D Q J

R N V O E S D U Y M T X B S W

U V T N L H F B I R I R E N E

T S U I N I C I L L O N W I B

O I P S P J G R D N N F N V Y

T K V G F C Q O M V C N O T V

A A K R K O Y R S Z A U S R G

S N K S D G F H J T M L I X I

SAINT IRENE A GREAT MARTYR

Lots and lots of the saints of our church lived just about 1,600 years ago. Why? Be-

cause the emperors were all pagan. They wor-

shipped idols, false gods who weren’t God. In

those days, nobody could worship our God and

get away with it!

St. Irene lived in Greece during this time. Her fa-

ther was the king, Licinius. He knew that lots of

other people were coming to believe in Jesus

Christ, and he definitely did not want his daughter

to do the same thing! So he locked her in a tower all

through her childhood so she wouldn’t learn about Christ. But some-

how, she still found out about Him anyway, and she was baptized.

Her father was so angry that his daughter had become a Christian

that he did something awful. He sent his daughter to be trampled by

horses. But what happened then? The horses wouldn’t move. Instead

they came after the king, Licinius! When he saw this miracle, he

changed his life. He—along with his whole family, and 3,000 other

people—became Christian. They knew then that this was the true

faith.

Finally, a new king came along. He refused to let Irene live as a Chris-

tian in peace (Irene means “peace”), so he had her killed. But now, of

course, Saint Irene lives in peace with our Lord!

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We celebrate the feast of Saint Irene on Friday, May 5th.