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Anyone who participates in the Services of Holy Week, starting with PalmSunday, will experience in a real way the events of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ? He/she will enter into the pain and sorrow of the Virgin Mary as she beholds her son on the Cross, as she carries away His dead body to burial, and as the tomb is sealed.
Then, gathered in the middle of the night, we will experience the joy and triumph of God over death as we watch the light break through the darkness, spreading to every corner of the church, bringing joy to our hearts. As we hear the angels in the Gospel announcing the Resurrection of the Lord to the women at the tomb, and the priest triumphantly crying out, “Christ is Risen!” we will joyfully shout back, “Truly He is Risen!” and begin to sing the Paean of Pascha: “Christ is Risen from the dead, by death trampling down upon death and to those in the tombs He has granted life!”
Come join us, brothers and sisters. Here is the place and time when the greatest miracle of our God takes place for our salvation. Here is where our hearts and minds are transformed by His Power and Love for us!
Let us give God a chance this year to reach into our hearts and heal our wounds. Let us approach Him humbly and prayerfully. Let us offer ourselves to Him in Faith and Trust during this Holy Week so that the miracle of the Resurrection might happen in us, as well. Let us enter and be transformed!
In Christ’s Love,
Fr. Panayiotis Papageorgiou
