Category: Holy Week
On Great Saturday the Church contemplates the mystery of the Lord’s descent into Hades, the place of the dead. Death, our ultimate enemy, is defeated from within. “He (Christ) gave Himself as a ransom to death in which we were held captive, sold under sin. Descending into [...]
Let us commemorate today the solemnity of the burial of our Saviour. He has undone the bonds of death of those who were in hades, filled hades with His splendour, and roused from sleep those lying there; and we on earth rejoice exultant, recalling to mind His Resurrection, and now we fear death no [...]
Something strange is happening- – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness.
The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.
The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since [...]
When the Pious Joseph saw that the sun had hidden its rays,
and the veil of the Temple had been rent at the death of the
Saviour, he did approach Pilate and did plead with him
crying and saying, “Give thou me this stranger who from his
youth has wandered like a stranger. [...]
An overview of the subject
Dear friends, It is truly a great privilege, to be given the opportunity for us to meet in a University amphitheater, not in that dry and confined –albeit necessary- context of conveying certain scientific knowledge, but [...]
On Holy and Great Thursday evening the Orthodox Community in Hong Kong celebrated at Saint Luke Cathedral the matins service for Great and Holy Friday. In a service lasting well over 3 hours the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ was proclaimed.
Apolytikion. Mode 4.
You ransomed us [...]
The Sanctification Ceremony for the Holy Myrrh
The Sanctification Ceremony for the Holy Myrrh at the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Holy Thursday morning.
The Great Vespers and the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great. The Sanctification Ceremony for the Holy Myrrh at 2:01:48-2:14:00
