Blessed Holy Week (or Happy Easter, as the case may be)! I stayed over Saturday night in a hostel in Tbilisi for the first time since August, and then took the midnight train back on Sunday. The weather has warmed up so abruptly that it was sometimes almost too warm, as though we had skipped [...]
All posts in category Holy Week
Palm Sunday
Posted by Molly on April 9, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/palm-sunday-2/
Blessed Holy Week
It’s Holy Wednesday. We have a three day Easter break at school, and… it’s Holy Week. It would be fair to ask why I don’t write more about God, church, the Bible, and so on. I wonder that as well. I used to write on feasts and fasts a good deal more than I do [...]
Posted by Molly on April 20, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/blessed-holy-week-2/
Holy Saturday
Descent into Hades Arise, O Lord, Judge the earth, for Thou shalt have an inheritance among all the nations. It’s been a long week; a long Lent, too, if we’ve been keeping it properly. But the end is in sight: already the Friday night Matins has begun in lamentation and ended with the myrrh bearers [...]
Posted by Molly on April 18, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/holy-saturday/
Great and Holy Friday
Today we hold a funeral service for God. Holy Friday is all about “God is dead, we have killed Him!” It goes up as a common lamentation. Perfect Man and perfect God, the second person of the Trinity, who took on our nature that He might redeem us. “God Man that man might become God,” [...]
Posted by Molly on April 17, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/great-and-holy-friday/
Holy Thursday
The Passion Gospels During Holy Week everything gets moved back by about half a day. Probably that’s so that we can fit all these services in, and still celebrate Pascha at midnight. In any event, we read the four Passion gospels aloud in church on Thursday night. It’s long, but good. If you really love [...]
Posted by Molly on April 16, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/holy-thursday/
Holy Wednesday
Holy Unction There are two occasions for holding an unction service: one is when a person is very ill; the other is Wednesday of Holy Week. Actually, we *could* have one whenever we want. So why don’t we? I’m not sure – it could be out of respect, or it could be because it’s long [...]
Posted by Molly on April 15, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/holy-wednesday/
Holy Tuesday
Some definitions Some of our terms are not very “seeker-friendly,” so since Tuesday we have the third Bridegroom Matins, which is exactly like the other two, perhaps I should pause a moment to explain a few words. If I left out anything puzzling, please leave a comment and I’ll be happy to correct it. Pascha [...]
Posted by Molly on April 14, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/holy-tuesday/
Holy Monday
Bridegroom Matins Behold the Bridegroom cometh in the midst of the night, and blessed is the servant whom He shall find watching. But unworth is he whom he shall find heedless. Beware therefore O my soul, lest thought be born down with sin. Lest though be given up to death, and be shut out of [...]
Posted by Molly on April 13, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/holy-monday/
Palm Sunday
By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your passion, You did confirm the universal resurrection, O Christ God! Like the children with the palms of victory, we cry out to You, O Vanquisher of death: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord! I’m going to assume you [...]
Posted by Molly on April 12, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/palm-sunday/
Lazarus Saturday
By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your passion, You did confirm the universal Resurrection, O Christ God! Like the children with the palms of victory, We cry out to You, O Vanquisher of death; Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord! Lazarus Saturday always falls the [...]
Posted by Molly on April 11, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/lazarus-saturday/
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