For this reason, today s feast is the crowning feast of the Orthodox Church, as it is the death of Hades and the abolition of hatred. The crowning joy in the life of the Christian is their sharing in the banquet of faith with all the saints, where the richness of His goodness invites all of us to rejoice. However, there are many who do not partake of this universal joy. They are not able to love because they do not consider as their most sublime joy and enjoyment the richness of His goodness, the immeasurable love for all humankind of the Risen Lord. God rewards through love and reproves through love.
Love creates all things in the beginning.
And in the end love judges everyone. The Lord s Resurrection is the manifestation and the triumph of the love of God. The Catechetical Homily of our father among the saints John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, the Golden Mouth, continually inspires and empowers the whole Orthodox Church like a divine gift. It also explains why the humble Phanar is a place of theology and why the glory of the Great Church is the Cross. The humble and contrite, people of love and of the Cross, are always the people who possess the joy of the Resurrection.