Holy Week and Pascha 2022
On Sunday, April 17, 2022, Palm Sunday, the Holy and Great Week Begins.
Synaxarion for Palm Sunday
On this day, the Sunday of Palms, we celebrate the radiant and glorious Feast of the Entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.
Holy Week 2021 Schedule of Services
Holy Week and Pascha 2021 Schedule of Services in Hong Kong
Holy Week in the Orthodox Church
Holy Week and Pascha in the Orthodox Church
Holy Week: The meaning of each day
Let’s explore the meaning of each of the solemn days of Passion Week.
Homily on Great and Holy Friday by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotis
It is Holy Friday today, my beloved and brethren fellow-sinners, a holy day full of memories, a day which calls forth strong emotions and tears.
A Liturgical Explanation of Holy Week
The Beginning of the Cross: Saturday of Lazarus “Having fulfilled Forty Days… we ask to see the Holy Week of Thy Passion.”With these words sung at Vespers of Friday, Lent comes to its end and we enter into the annual commemoration of Christ’s suffering, death and Resurrection.
Synaxarion for Great and Holy Monday
Joseph was the eleventh son of the Patriarch Jacob, born to him of Rachel. Envied by his brothers on account of certain dreams that he had, he was first cast into a pit. Jacob was deceived by his other sons into believing, on the basis of a bloodstained robe, that Joseph had been devoured by a wild beast. Joseph was then sold to some Ishmaelite travellers for thirty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites in turn sold him to Potiphar, the chief eunuch of Pharaoh, the King of Egypt.
Synaxarion for the Saturday of Lazarus
On this day, the Saturday before Palm Sunday, we celebrate the Raising of Lazarus, the holy and righteous friend of Christ, who lay for four days in the tomb.
Bright Friday: The Feast of the Mother of God the Life-Giving Spring
One of the most famous shrines of Constantinople, the Zoodochos Pege, is located outside the land walls to the west of the city, at the site now known as Balikli. Two versions of a very old tradition provide information on the origins of this ancient shrine.