ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA!

HE HAS RISEN AS HE PROMISED!

ALLELUIA!       ALLELUIA!

"Christ Opening the Gates of Dachau" in the Russian Orthodox Memorial Chapel of Dachau. Dedicated to the RESURRECTION OF JESUS, the chapel holds an icon depicting angels opening the gates of the concentration camp and Christ Himself leading the prisoners to freedom. The simple wooden block conical architecture of the chapel is representative of the traditional funeral chapels of the Russian North .

Interestingly enough Dachau was liberated during Holy Week, so this icon is a fitting image. While it reminds us of the horrors of another era, we see in our own day, in every country, the devaluation human life. The Resurrection of Jesus reveals that death is destroyed and we have hope of life beyond this “vale of tears”, as we await our resurrection into His Life.