On the Holy Pascha
By St. Hesychios of Jerusalem [1]
1. Τhe call of the royal trumpet. It is a sacred and royal trumpet
that calls us again to this spiritual theater, the Paschal celebration in the
Church. This trumpet was filled with sounds in Bethlehem, because it was there
that God was born as man. Bethlehem was the beginning. But this trumpet was
fired, reached its full blast in Zion, Jerusalem. Because it was in Jerusalem
that the Cross was raised and the Resurrection took place. The Cross was the
hummer and the Resurrection the anvil. It is impossible to everyone to speak
worthily of its beauty, to describe its wondrous splendor, to recount the
divine kingdom which emerges from it, to touch it and to explore it.
