Synaxarion for Holy and Great Friday

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Synaxarion for Holy and Great Friday

On this day, Holy and Great Friday, we celebrate the awesome, holy, and saving Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ—the spitting, the blows with the palm of the hand, the buffeting, the mockery, the reviling, the wearing of the purple robe, the reed, the sponge, the vinegar, the nailing, the lance, and above all, the Crucifixion and Death which He condescended to endure willingly for our sakes—and also the saving confession of the grateful thief upon the cross.

Homily on Great Friday, Given at the Evening Service

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Homily on Great Friday, Given at the Evening Service
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Homily on Great Friday, Given at the Evening Service

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

What was this sight, which brought the onlookers to total bewilderment? What was this sight, which sealed the lips of the onlookers with silence, and yet struck their souls? They came as to a spectacle, just to satisfy their curiosity; they left the scene beating their breasts, carrying away a horrifying astonishment… What was this sight?

A Sermon on Great Thursday. On Thankfulness

April 8/21, 2011

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

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A Sermon on Great Thursday. On Thankfulness

April 8/21, 2011

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

The soul that is capable of gratitude to God will be saved. The soul that is incapable of gratitude to God—disregarding the life it has received from Him, disregarding all the blessings, and the trials that impart wisdom to that soul—condemns itself to the same fate as did the ungrateful spirits, the bodiless beings we call demons, condemn themselves. And the ungrateful person makes himself like the demons, and like Judas.

From a Homily on Great Thursday. The Holy Mysteries of Christ

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

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From a Homily on Great Thursday. The Holy Mysteries of Christ

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Bread strengtheneth man's heart (Ps. 103:17), the prophet foretold of a certain miraculous bread, which, unlike ordinary, material bread that strengthens the body, is to strengthen man's heart. Our heart is in need of strengthening! It was frightfully shaken when we fell, and cannot by itself stop wavering. It is continually shaken by various passions. Fallen man in his blindness preaches to no purpose and in vain about the firmness of human will.

Holy and Great Thursday

St. John Chrysostom, Archpriest G. C. Debolsky

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Holy and Great Thursday

St. John Chrysostom, Archpriest G. C. Debolsky

How many now say, I would wish to see His form, the mark, His clothes, His shoes. Lo! thou seest Him, Thou touchest Him, thou eatest Him. And thou indeed desirest to see His clothes, but He giveth Himself to thee not to see only, but also to touch and eat and receive within thee. Let then no one approach it with indifference, no one faint-hearted, but all with burning hearts, all fervent, all inspired.