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The descent into the bleak kingdom of death
Metropolitan Joseph of Proikonissos
15 April 2023
Today the Lord has descended into the vaults of Hades. Saint Peter says that he did so to preach to the spirits in prison . He descended into the cheerless, somber realms of death, where there is neve... 
The Resurrection: an affront to reason
Archimandrite Epiphanios Ekonomou
15 April 2023
It’s hardly surprising that the message of the Resurrection of Christ has raised a whole host of doubts and questions. Objections were registered immediately after the occurrence of the supernatural e...
Why was the stone rolled away from the entry to the tomb?
Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos †
15 April 2023
There can hardly be any Christian believer who doesn’t know that an angel descended from heaven and rolled away the stone from the entry to the tomb where the Creator of life lay dead, without breath....
They sieve us
Saint Paisios the Athonite
15 April 2023
God allows temptations in order for them to winnow us and our soul is thus purified with sorrows and tears. Then we’re forced to flee to God for our salvation.
Saint Païsios the Athonite...
6th Hour, Great Friday: Psalm 53
Mihaïl Koutsos
14 April 2023
For the end, among hymns of instruction by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul ‘Behold, is not David concealed among us?’
For the end of the fulfilment of the prophecy, accompanied by musi...
The Stranger
George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
14 April 2023
Creation suffers the Passion of its Creator. The sun hides its rays. The earth quakes and the veil of the temple is rent in two ‘from top to bottom’ (Matth.. 27, 51). The Savior is put to death and Jo...
The Epitaphios (The tomb of Christ)
Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou
14 April 2023
The service of Great Saturday is effectively a funeral service for Christ, and yet it is the most colourful service of Holy Week, because we have already begun to celebrate the Resurrection. The Epita...
The Tomb of the Lord (Great Saturday)
Fr. Lev Gillet
14 April 2023
On Holy Saturday the Church directs and concentrates our attention on our Lord’s tomb. In the whole liturgical year, there is no day with a more complex character than Holy Saturday, for this day shar...
If they want
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
14 April 2023
People are deceiving themselves if they think that material goods, the flesh, money or glory are in themselves enough to bring joy and peace. But world-weariness can, if people want it to, lead th...
‘Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hanged on a tree’ (old stichario), tone plagal 2
Greek Byzantine Choir
13 April 2023
From a recording of the service of the Great Hours on Holy Friday, 25-04-2003 at the church of Saint Irene in Aiolou St. It is sung by the choirs of the church, directed by Lukourgos Angelopoulos an...
