"No one who has worshipped with Eastern Catholics can fail to sense the extraordinary hold that the recurring cycle of their liturgy has upon the piety of the people. No one who has stood for long hours in a crowded church in eastern Europe on Holy Saturday evening has awaited the Resurrection of Our Lord in vain. While the body of the Savior lies in the center of the nave, the liturgical representation through the psalms and prophecy of our Passover from death to life moves in crescendo to the moment of the Resurrection when the church, now alight from hundreds of flickering tapers, resounds with the cry of the priest: "Christos Voskrese!" "Christ is Risen!" and the world that is reliving its joy of its release from the bondage of sin and death exults" "Voistinnu voskrese!" "Indeed He is risen!" No one who has lived this can fail to realize for the Eastern Christian the Gospel is inseparably linked to the liturgical cycle of feasts and fasts that unfold week after week in their parish church." -- Father Robert Taft, S.J.