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pascha

  1. The Liturgist

    Christos Anesti!

    I want to wish a most happy Feast of the Resurrection to all of my friends in the Traditional Theology forum including but not limited to @MarkRohfrietsch @ViaCrucis @Ain't Zwinglian @Shane R @Paidiske @Deegie @prodromos @FenderTL5 @jas3 @dzheremi @Michie @chevyontheriver @boughtwithaprice...
  2. The Liturgist

    The Orthodox View on Fasting

    With Lent approaching, one book of relevance that graces my liturgical library is the celebrated translation of the Lenten Triodion, which is a service book and hymnal used by the Orthodox Church during the three Sundays before the Great Lent, during the Fast ifself, and Holy Week, concluding...
  3. The Liturgist

    Hosanna in the Highest, and Christos Anesti!

    I want to wish all my friends in Traditional Theology on the Julian, Revised Julian and Coptic calendars, such as @dzheremi, @prodromos , @HTacianas , @PsaltiChrysostom and many others, a blessed Palm Sunday, and to all my friends on the Gregorian calendar, including but by no means limited to...
  4. The Liturgist

    Beautiful 1961 Documentary on Eastern Orthodox Holy Week

    As today is Great and Holy Friday on the Julian Calendar, I thought it meet and right to share this 1961 American documentary covering Antiochian Orthodox Holy Week Services, led by Metropolitan Anthony Bashir (Memory eternal, reposed in 1966) the predecessor of Metropolitan Philip Saliba...
  5. The Liturgist

    Christos Anesti!

    Christ is risen! Today we celebrate Gregorian Easter, and in one week, Pascha for the Orthodox Christians* and some Byzantine Rite Catholics, notably the Ukrainian Greek Catholics and Russian Catholics. Please post photos or videos of your Paschal services if available. *(except for the...
  6. I

    Christ is Risen!

    It was Pascha of the first year after the Communist October Revolution. In front of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Lunaciarski was holding an atheist conference. This founder of the "bezbojnik" (without God) movement had declared openly a couple of months earlier that God should disappear...
  7. dzheremi

    Glorious Feast of the Holy Resurrection @ St Mary & St Moses Abbey, TX 04/19/2020

    Glorious Feast of the Holy Resurrection @ St Mary & St Moses Abbey, TX 04/19/2020
  8. dzheremi

    Great Friday of Holy Pascha (Coptic Orthodox)

    His Grace Bishop Youssef: Great Friday Holy Pascha ~ Great Friday: 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 12th Hours St. Mary St. Moses Abbey Coptic Orthodox Abbey, Sandia [Corpus Christi], TX 04/17/2020
  9. dzheremi

    Hosanna Sunday celebration in the Coptic Orthodox Church

    Firstly, may all who celebrate the glorious mystery of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ's defeat of death through His holy resurrection from the dead today be blessed in their celebrations. I know things are especially hard for you all, as they are for all of us in every place, but we will...
  10. dzheremi

    Feast of the Resurrection (Syriac Orthodox) ܩܝܡܬܐ ܦܪܘܩܝܬܐ

  11. Monna

    Pascha in a time of Pestilence

    Pacha, or Easter, this year will be profoundly different for many of us than most years. The 40 day fasting period, or lent, before Easter, has been a period when whole nations have had to give up their normal way of life. It hasn't been so much a question of voluntarily giving up a cherished...
  12. dzheremi

    Christ is Risen! (Oriental Orthodox celebrations)

    Christ is risen! Liturgy broadcast from the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of St. Vartan in NY: A very short (38 min) selection from the Coptic Orthodox liturgy as celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Mark in El Abassiya (Cairo), beginning with the hymn "Ya Kul al Sefof" (All Ye Heavenly...
  13. Not David

    I'm so excited for Pascha!

    This is my first time, so it is going to be nerve wrenching!
  14. Dewi Sant

    CHRIST IS RISEN