The Paschal Homily of Saint John Chrysostom as read by The Rev'd John L. Blackburn

Sermons from Saint Christopher's By-the-Sea, Portland Texas · Apr 4, 2021 · 7m

This evening’s sermon was written quite a long time ago, around the year 400 AD to be only semi-exact. Yet, by the year 400, this very act of keeping Vigil as we have been and are doing now was already an old custom, and in many ways seemed ancient to those believers as well. But yet, on this most Holy of all Nights, we watch, and we remember just as Saint John Chrysostom did all those many years ago. It has become a tradition in the Orthodox Church and in many Anglican and Episcopal Churches to read this sermon of Saint John Chrysostom on this night. It is a welcoming sermon, a sermon…