Tag Archives: Pascha

Orthodox Crossing: One Womb and a Year

Posted on 4 May 2025 by JBowe

About a year ago our Shrewsbury congregation was swelling beyond its space and shortly after a search we found ourselves birthed into a second church just in time for Pascha last year. It was reformed church space no less, named

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Photo gallery of Holy Week and Pascha

Posted on 9 May 2024 by admin

Christ is risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Hristos a înviat! Христос воскресе! Christus ist auferstanden! Христос васкрсе! ¡Cristo resucitó! Христос воскрес! Christus ist auferstanden! Kristus er oppstanden! Christus resurrexit! Le Christ est ressuscité! Cristo è risorto! Atgyfododd Crist! !‎  المسيح قام! حقا قام

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That this Pascha is a type of the future and eternal Pascha

Posted on 16 April 2024 by admin

This Pascha is for one day and it passes, while that Pascha has no successor. From it pain, grief and sighing have fled away; there everlasting joy awaits. Continue reading →

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Archbishop Nikitas’s Homily for Pascha 2023

Posted on 21 April 2023 by admin

Beloved in the Lord, On the joyous occasion of this Feast of Feasts, allow me to share with you the final stanza from one of the kontakia on the Resurrection of our Lord, written in the sixth century by the

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Homily on Holy Saturday: The Lord Descends into Hades

Posted on 19 April 2025 by admin

“Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep.” In this homily from St. Epiphanius, we witness Christ’s triumphant descent into Hades where He takes Adam by the hand and declares, “I am your God, who for your sake have become your son; rise from the dead, for I am the Life of the dead.” Continue reading →

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Πρόγραμμα Ιερών Ακολουθιών Μεγάλης Εβδομάδας και Πάσχα

Posted on 8 April 2023 by admin
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Journey to Pascha from Sunday of the Holy Cross

Posted on 18 March 2023 by admin

“I have no tears, no repentance, no compunctionBut as God do Thou Thyself, O Saviour, bestow them on me.”(Canon of St Andrew, Canticle two v25) Dear brothers and sisters As we enter the second half of the journey towards Holy

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