On the same Great Friday of Passion Week: a homily on the taking down of the Lord from the Cross, His burial, and the lamentation of the Most Holy Mother of God. Today let us praise the noble Joseph together with the myrrh-bearing women, for he ministered to the body of Christ after the Crucifixion….
On Holy and Great Friday, by our holy father Ephraim the Syrian, on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. I tremble to speak with my tongue and to touch upon the awesome account of the Savior—for it is a fearful thing to speak of this. For today, our God has been delivered into the…
Great Friday is the day of the saving sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, offered for the salvation of the world. Seized by the Jerusalem guard at the command of the high priests, condemned by the Sanhedrin and handed over to Roman authority, the Eternal Son of God—the incarnate Word, the One of the Holy…
St. John Chrysostom Today, my beloved, a little needs to be said to you; a little, not because you weary of much preaching—for no other city is so fond of listening to spiritual discourses. We speak briefly today not because we tire you with much preaching, but because there is an important reason to shorten…
Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) Dear brothers and sisters, On the evening of Great Thursday, before the Jewish Passover celebrated on Saturday, Jesus Christ gathered His disciples in the upper room in Zion. The Lord washed His disciples’ feet and said, “Do you know what I have done for you? I have given you an example, that…
St. John Chrysostom “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). For this reason, Christ took flesh of our same substance, to teach us virtue through it. “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in…
On Holy and Great Thursday, a homily of Saint John Chrysostom on the Holy Communion, that is, on partaking of the Body and Blood of the Lord, addressed to kings and princes and all Orthodox Christians. When a king or prince comes to a city, the people of that city go out to meet him….
Great Thursday of Passion Week holds a special significance that sets it apart from all other days of the year and justifies its popular name — Pure Thursday. This purity is not to be understood in a physical sense, but rather as a spiritual cleansing, brought about by the Sacrament of Communion, instituted on this day…
On Holy and Great Wednesday of Passion Week, concerning the most beautiful Joseph: how he revealed himself to his brothers, and how his father Jacob came to Egypt with all his household. When Potiphar, who had cast Joseph into prison, beheld that most glorious sight—how Joseph sat in Pharaoh’s chariot in great honor—he was greatly…
On Holy and Great Wednesday, the Church commemorates a striking event described in the Gospel according to Matthew:“Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto Him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on His head as He sat at meat….