PASCHAL LETTER 2014

Bishop Daniel's Paschal Letter

My dear Friends:  Christ is risen!  Alleluia!

During this Holy Season of Easter, we pray for peace within ourselves and with those we love, but also we pray for harmony among all people and nations. We who call ourselves Christians are called by Jesus to be peacemakers: our love must be unconditional, our actions non-violent, and our community inclusive.

Jesus’ Resurrection – the anastasis, the rebirth – reminds us that God’s Holy Spirit is always alive in us and is a reality that informs our daily choices, allowing us to achieve the unconditional love that is the basis of Jesus message.  Each day, we are privileged to surrender our hearts to God’s call for us to love our neighbor as ourselves. 

The Resurrection affirms our love for ourselves and restores our innocence. The Resurrection secures our love of every other one of God’s children and adults, as well extends to all animals and the Earth. The Resurrection defends the recognition that all are created in God’s Image and Likeness.

I pray that we may, all of us together, be enriched by the healing love of Almighty God, Light of the Universe, who raises us up in salvation, by Jesus Christ, over death into eternal life.  May God protect and guide you and all those that you love. May God bless you and may your heart be at peace in God’s grace. Live in the Light of the Risen Christ!

+ Daniel

First Hierarch / Bishop of the Inclusive Orthodox Church

 

PASCHAL LETTER 2013

Inclusive Orthodox Church

Most Rev. Daniel J. Dahl, EOMC, DD
First Hierarch & Apostolic President

Paschal Letter 2013

Christ is Risen, receive His Blessings!

Easter is when the People of God recall the central mystery of the Christian faith – the Resurrection of the Glorified Body united with the Spirit of God in Jesus Christ.

We have much to pray for at this time of commemorating the Risen Christ. First of all we pray for World Peace and petition God’s angels to guide and watch over, in particular at this time, the Middle East and the Koreas.

We also pray in thanks to the Holy Spirit for bringing to Christendom a new spiritual leader, Francis, the Bishop of Rome and Patriarch of the West. We, among our group hold Pope Francis as the Church’s first member in Christ’s choir on Earth [protocoryphaeus].

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew immediately recognized this fact for the first time since the Church of Christ divided, East and West, by immediately joining the Holy Father Francis in Rome at his installation. Francis is returning hope to Christians.

May our faith and trust in the Resurrection of Life, as testified in the Risen Christ, bring all of us into the fullness of physical perfection and create within each one that complete spiritual maturity and joy which are hallmarks of the People of God.

In the Light of the Risen Christ,

+ Daniel of Mount Carmel

First Hierarch / Bishop of the Inclusive Orthodox Church

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First Hierarch concelebrates Solemn Paschal Divine Liturgy at Annunciaton Monastery

[Photo left to right] Archpriest Drew Kovach, First Hierarch

Archbishop Daniel of Mount Carmel & Deacon Stephen Tschudi

The monks of the Eremitic Order of Mount Carmel joined in the Solemn Paschal Divine Liturgy with IOC clergy and the Church's First Hierarch of the Holy Synod, Most Rev. Daniel J. Dahl, at the Order's Annunciation Monastery on Sunday, April 4th, 2010, in Honolulu. The First Hierarch's Paschal Letter is LINKED above.