Akathist to Jesus, Conqueror of Death
Akathist to Jesus, Conqueror of Death
St. Nikolai (Velimirovich)
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This Akathist to Jesus, Conqueror of Death, was prayerfully and masterfully written by St. Nikolai, the Bishop of Ohrid.  Earlier he had composed and published his famous Prayers by the Lake.  Soon after being issued, the Prayers were very cordially and thoughtfully introduced and praised by Hiermonk Justin Popovich, at that time in a professor of St. Sava Theological Seminary.

Probably in response to the sincere presentation of the Prayers by the Lake, Bishop Nikolai in his own hand wrote this highly poetic and deeply theological Akathist to the Resurrected Christ, in a notebook on pages without lines, inscribing at its end:

Composed and dedicated to Hieromonk Justin by monk Nikolai.  Pascha, 1923.

This manuscript notebook with the Akathist has been kept up to the present day in the personal library of Father Justin the New of Celije, of blessed memory [now canonized by the Church].

What is an Akathist?  An akathist (Greek, akathistos) is a hymn dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity. The word akathist itself means "not sitting." (Source:  https://orthodoxwiki.org/Akathist)

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