FROM THE CROSS TO THE RESSURRECTION

We waited, and at last our expectations were answered. When the Patriarch chanted ‘Christ is Risen’, a heavy weight was removed from our souls. We felt as though we too had risen from the dead.

Kallistos Ware speaks to us of the progress and the expectation contained in the journey of Great Lent, of the fast and its Cross, the process that culminates in the ineffable joy of the Resurrection.

This publication is a collaboration between the author and Mother Maria, a nun from the Orthodox monastery at Buci, outside Paris.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Kallistos Ware was born in England in 1934. He was a lay Anglican until 1958, when at the age of 24 he was baptised into the Orthodox Church and was received into the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.

In 1965 he was made a deacon and given the name Kallistos. In 1966 he was made a priest and Archimandrite and was tonsured as a monk of the Monastery of St John the Theologian on Patmos. In 1982 he was appointed assistant to the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. Since 1983 he has been chairman of the Council of the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, and in 1966 he founded the Greek Orthodox Community of the Holy Trinity in Oxford. Since 1973 he has been an active   member of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue. He is the president of the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary and co-editor of the journal Sobornost.

For 35 years he taught Orthodox theology and ecclesiastical history at Oxford University.

Today he lives in Oxford, in the Orthodox parish for which he was responsible for so many years, where he continues to write and translate.