Feasts of the Triodion, Great Lent, Holy Week & Pascha
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Great and Holy Pascha
On the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha, Orthodox Christians celebrate the life-giving Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This feast of feasts is the most significant day in the life of the Church. It is a celebration of the defeat of death, as neither death itself nor the power of the grave could hold our Savior captive. In this victory that came through the Cross, Christ broke the bondage of sin, and through faith offers us restoration, transformation, and eternal life.
Holy Week comes to an end at sunset of Great and Holy Saturday, as the Church prepares to celebrate her most ancient and preeminent festival, Pascha, the feast of feasts. The time of preparation will give way to a time of fulfillment. The glorious and respendent light emanating from the empty Tomb will dispel the darkness. Christ, risen from the dead, cracks the fortress of death and takes “captivity captive” (Psalm 67:19). Learn More »
Apolytikion of Pascha (Plagal of the First Tone)
Christ is risen from the dead, by death He has trampled down death, and on those in the tombs He has bestowed life. Hear The Hymns of Holy Pascha »
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"MORE
THAN AN EASTER IN COMMON" A link to the New York Times
Op-Ed piece by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America published
in the New York Times, April 8, 2007.»
PASTORAL
MESSAGE: His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America reflects
on the Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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