"Christ is Risen!" Easter Greetings in Many Languages

The Resurrection of the Christ,

an Orthodox icon.

It is Easter night in Finland, and I just came from the Easter Midnight Mass aka Easter Night Service. It was a beautiful event in a small local church. Soon comes the Resurrection Morning, and the sun will rise. So it's time for Easter greeting. I want to do it in an "Orthodox way".

In the Orthodox Church, Easter is called Pascha. According to Wikipedia, "the Paschal greeting is an Easter custom among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Christians, as well as among some Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians. Instead of "hello" or its equivalent, one is to greet another person with "Christ is Risen!", and the response is "Truly, He is Risen" (compare Matthew 27:64, Matthew 28:6-7, Mark 16:6, Luke 24:6, Luke 24:34). In some cultures, such as in Russia and Serbia, it is also customary to exchange a triple kiss on the alternating cheeks after the greeting".

Related to this tradition, Leo Tolstoy's great novel Resurrection (1899) includes one of the most beautiful love scene in literature. Chapter 15 tells how boy (Nekhludoff) and girl (Katyusha) are in the church on the Easter night. After the Easter Night Service, they kiss each other three times in the morning twilight of the churchyard. At the same time, they say (girl): "Christ is risen", and (boy): "Truly, He is risen!" This innocent, traditional "Easter kiss" is actually their first kiss. Tolstoy writes: "There is a point in the love between man and woman when that love reaches its zenith; when it is free from consciousness, reason and sensuality. Such a moment arrived for Nekhludoff that Easter morn."

How beautifully written! God is love and where there is true love between two people, there is God in their midst.

Here is the Paschal greeting in 34 languages:

Albanian (Tosk): Krishti u ngjall! Vërtet u ngjall!
Arabic: المسيح قام! حقا قام!
Armenian: Քրիստոս յարեաւ ի մեռելոց՜ Օրհնեալ է Յարութիւնն Քրիստոսի՜
Belarusian: Хрыстос уваскрос! Сапраўды ўваскрос!
Bulgarian: Христос възкръсна! Наистина възкръсна!
Chinese: 基督复活了！确实复活了！
Croatian: Krist uskrsnu! Uistinu uskrsnu!
Czech: Kristus je vzkříšen! Vskutku je vzкříšen!
Dutch: Christus is opgestaan! Hij is waarlijk opgestaan!
English: Christ is risen! Truly, He is risen!
Estonian: Kristus on üles tõusnud! Tõesti, Ta on üles tõusnud!
Finnish: Kristus nousi kuolleista! Totisesti nousi!
French: Le Christ est ressuscité! Vraiment Il est ressuscité!
Georgian: ქრისტე აღსდგა! ჭეშმარიტად აღსდგა!
German: Christus ist auferstanden! Er ist wahrhaftig auferstanden!
Greek: Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ανέστη!
Hebrew: המשיח קם! באמת קם!‎
Hindustani: येसु मसीह ज़िन्दा हो गया है! हाँ यक़ीनन, वोह ज़िन्दा हो गया है!
Hungarian: Krisztus feltámadt! Valóban feltámadt!
Italian: Cristo è risorto! È veramente risorto!
Japanese: ハリストス復活！実に復活！
Lithuanian: Kristus prisikėlė! Tikrai prisikėlė!
Macedonian: Христос воскресна! Навистина воскресна!
Norwegian: Kristus er oppstanden! Han er sannelig oppstanden!
Polish: Chrystus zmartwychwstał! Prawdziwie zmartwychwstał!
Portuguese: Cristo ressuscitou! Em verdade ressuscitou!
Romanian: Hristos a înviat! Adevărat a înviat!
Russian: Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе!
Serbian: Христос васкрсе! Ваистину васкрсе!
Slovak: Kristus z mŕtvych vstal! Skutočne z mŕtvych vstal!
Spanish: Cristo ha resucitado! Verdaderamente, ha resucitado!
Swedish: Kristus är uppstånden! Ja, Han är verkligen uppstånden!
Turkish: İsa dirildi! Hakikaten dirildi!
Ukrainian: Христос воскрес! Воістину воскрес!

My home church where I attended the Easter Midnight
Mass. Both my parents' funeral services has been held
in the same place. This church is build in 1827 by Russian
state (at the time, Finland was a part of Russian Empire).