Easter 2008
Solemn Easter liturgy in Colonia
27. April 2008
Christ is risen! -- HE is truly risen!
This year we were able to all our joy, a common Easter church service of the two communities Cologne St. Potschajiv of Job "and" Transfiguration of Christ "celebrate. Many believers came to worship, filled the church and more than 80% of all churchgoers have to share the Holy gifts. With a great joy, we have this positive development in our two communities recorded. Is it preparation by the confession and then was conscious participation in the sacrament of Holy Communion, also a sign that the faithful believers our Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the two communities rediscovered their inner peace and termination forces of the past, by the Departure of the persons concerned, thank God, have lost their effect. After a solemn procession around the church, for the blessing of the faithful 
mitgebrachten Easter meals, found the Gemeidnemitglieder just as much in the Trapeza our church to see the feast and the joy of the Resurrection of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ , By a common meal to seal.
Solemn Easter liturgy in Neuss
27. April, Neuss
Also in Neuss, in this year's Easter in a very positive atmosphere and beautiful celebrated. Many believers had also introduced here and formed one of the joy of the Resurrection dominated, multinational community of Germans, Ukrainians, Greeks and Russians. Contrary to worship in Cologne, was in Neuss the Easter church service primarily in English and celebrated at the end then, after the blessing for the food, solemnly "Boshe Velikij" sung together. As in Cologne, was also in Neuss, after the church service, in the premises of the community centre of our German Dekanates, a joint Easter meal and preparing for a long time the faithful sat together for their Easter joy, even in the peaceful gathering of believers of different ethnic origin, convincing expression.
The Cologne town wrote the dean, Mitr. Protopresbyter Paul Echinger, Neuss: "Here in Neuss the church was very well attended and 
we have until late afternoon sat together. Even after the church service was already long gone, Ukrainians still came from Dusseldorf to us to have some candles and anzuzünden the names of those to leave behind their next thought God service be. The church is aware halt in some people still very little, but we must strive to plant these small by reckless behaviour auszureißen, but slow to grow and to flourish. . . "
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TWithin the body of Christian beliefs, the resurrection of Jesus is a core event on which much of Christian doctrine and theology depend. According to The New Testament, Jesus, the central figure of Christianity, was crucified, died, buried within a tomb, and resurrected three days later (John 19:30–31, Mark 16:1, Mark 16:6). The New Testament also mentions several resurrection appearances of Jesus on different occasions to his twelve apostles and disciples, including "more than five hundred brethren at once" (1 Cor. 15:6), before Jesus' Ascension. These two events are essential doctrines of the Christian faith, and are commemorated by Christians during Good Friday and Easter, particularly during the liturgical time of Holy Week.
Other groups, such as Jews, Muslims, Bahá'ís and other non-Christians, as well as some liberal Christians, dispute whether Jesus actually rose from the dead. Arguments over death and resurrection claims occur at many religious debates and interfaith dialogues.[1]
Significance
As Paul the Apostle, an early front runner of Christianity, contended, "If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless" (1 Cor. 15:14)[2] The death and resurrection of Jesus are the most important events in Christian Theology, as they form the point in scripture where Jesus gives his ultimate demonstration that he has power over life and death, thus he has the ability to give people eternal life.[3] According to the Bible, "God raised him from the dead,"[4] he ascended to heaven, to the "right hand of God,"[5] and will return again[6] to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and establishment of the Kingdom of God, see also Messianism and Messianic Age.[7]
The following passage is Paul the Apostle's apologetic (defense) of the resurrection of Christ:
If it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep
– 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 (NRSV)
Most Christians accept the New Testament story as a historical account of some kind of resurrection, which is central to their faith. Some modern scholars use the belief of Jesus' followers in the resurrection as a point of departure for establishing the continuity of the historical Jesus and the proclamation of the early church.[8] Most non-Christians do not accept the bodily resurrection of Jesus, considering it a myth without historical precedent.[citation needed]. Carl Jung suggests that the crucifixion-resurrection story was the forceful spiritual symbol of, literally, God-as-Yahweh becoming God-as-Job.[9]
