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The "Great and Holy Sabbath" is the day which connects Good Friday, the commemoration of the Cross with the Day of His Resurrection. To many, the real nature and the meaning of this "connection," the very necessity of this "middle day" remains obscure. For a good majority of Church-goers, the "important" days of the Holy Week are Friday and ...
Apr 24, 2021 · le. Holy Week is partly a historical reenactment of those days. But much more than history, Holy Week is prayer, worship, and our mystical participation in the life, death, and resurrection. f our Lord, who still lives and reigns in us and in His Church. Holy Week takes us through the hope and expectation of Palm Sunday, the dark days of His ...
The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and takes from the Son and is consubstantial and co-essential with the Father. To Him be glory, honor and dominion at this time of the celebration of Pentecost and at all festivals, times, hours, seasons and through all the days of our life forever. People: Amin.
their disciples and so on. Although the celebration and meaning are the same, our blessed Coptic Orthodox Church exceeds all the others in our elaborate celebration. I recommend the Book of Pascha by the Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Pasadena, California. It is the most complete compilation of Paschal prayers in English, Coptic, and Arabic.
this expectant preparation, the deeper meaning of the Easter celebration will be lost. So it is that before the festival of Easter there has developed a long preparatory season of repentance and fasting, extending in present Orthodox usage over ten weeks. First come twenty-two days (four successive Sundays) of preliminary observance; then the ...
Light and joy shine not only at the end of Holy Week but also at its beginning. All those familiar with Orthodox worship know the peculiar, almost paradoxical character of Lazarus Saturday services. It is a Sunday, i.e., a Resurrection, service on a Saturday, a day usually devoted to the liturgical commemoration of the dead.
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Celebration of the resurrection weekly-Sunday Celebration of the agreement to betray Christ-Wednesday. We fast for this reason, to draw our memories to this day Celebration of the Crucifixion-Friday. Again for this reason we fast
