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Orthodox Christian Holy Week and Paschal Celebrations Worldwide 2015
Jerusalem-Holy Land: Patriarch Theophilos with Holy FireConstantinople – Holy Wednesday ServiceAlexandria – Palm SundayCoptic-Alexandria -Egypt : Holy Friday ServiceArmenia – Easter Procession at...
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The Shining Glory of the Little Local Parish
Fr. Lawrence Farley – December 2015- OCAOrthodoxy is known for its pomp—or rather, as our apologists and partisans like to say, for “its glorious worship.” We like to share the old story of the...
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Lazarus Saturday
April 2016The 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...
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Holy Week: A Mystic Torrent
http://www.synaxis.info/Fr. Steven Kostoff – OCA– April 2016As we enter Holy Week, the festal atmosphere of Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday yields to the solemnity, sobriety and sadness of Holy Week...
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Patriarch of Romania: “Pilgrimage is a prediction and witness of Christ’s...
Aurelian Iftimiu – www.basilica.ro– April 2016On the Saturday of St Lazarus, 23 April 2016, the traditional Palm Sunday Procession (pilgrimage) took place in Bucharest. In this event participated over...
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Discipline of Fasting
Church of Serbia- 1/3/17Within this developed pattern of Great Lent, what precisely do the rules of fasting demand? Neither in ancient nor in modern times has there ever been exact uniformity, but most...
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RUSSIAN CHURCH BEGINS TO PREPARE HOLY CHRISM
Photo: foma.ruPravoslavie.ru – 26/3/17With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Barsanuphius of St. Petersburg and Ladoga began the rite for preparing...
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Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)
Church of Serbia – 9/4/17Palm Sunday is the celebration of the triumphant entrance of Christ into the royal city of Jerusalem.He rode on a colt for which He Himself had sent, and He permitted the...
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Palm Easter Celebrations at the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem – 2/4/18On Sunday, April 1 2018, we celebrated Palm Easter, remembering when our Lord entered Jerusalem. In the Gospel of Matthew we read that our...
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Pan-Orthodox Music Symposium Goes Online : Holy Week Resources
SVOTS – 13/4/2020SVOTS Announcement As we head into Holy Week, we’ve unearthed beautiful recordings from the early 2000s and paired them with other Holy Week resources for you to download. In other big...
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