Receiving the Light of Christ

A word for Easter Sunday from St Clement of Alexandria:

Let us receive the Light, so that we may receive God.
Let us receive the Light and become disciples of the Lord.
For He has made this promise to the Father:
"I will make thy name known to my brothers: in the midst of the Church I will praise thee (Psalm xxii, 22)."
Sing to God thy Father and make Him known to me.
Thy words will save me, Thy song will teach me.
Up until now I have wandered far from the path in seeking God.
But since Thou dost enlighten me, O Lord, I find God through Thee,
I receive the Father from Thee,
I have become co-heir with Thee since Thou art not ashamed of Thy brother.
Let us put an end to our forgetfulness of truth.
Let us be rid of the ignorance, the darkness which veil our eyes like fog, and look upon the true God.
Acclaiming Him with the cry of "Hail, O Light."
Light from Heaven has shone upon us who were buried in the dark and prisoners in the shadow of death:
A light purer than the sun, and sweeter than the life this earth.
This light is life everlasting, and everything that shares in it, lives.
But night avoids the light, hides in fear, and gives way to the Day of the Lord.
All has become unfailing Light, and the place of the setting sun has become the place of its rising.
Such is the meaning of the "new creature."
For the "sun of justice" passing over the whole world in its course, impartially visits all the family of man
In imitation of His Father "who makes His sun to rise upon all alike."
And He distills for them the dew of truth.
He it is who has changed the place of the sun's setting into a new east, death into life by His crucifixion.
Snatching man away from perdition He gives him a sure place in heaven.
He takes up corruption and plants it in incorruption.
He transforms the earth into heaven.
He is God's farmer who sets up favorable signs and calls the peoples forth to work at good.
He reminds them of the way of life according to truth.
He endows us with a truly great, divine inheritance, coming from our Father,
An inheritance that cannot be lost.
(The Protreptikos, XI)