Christ is Risen!

Holy Week and Pascha Pictures

April 19-27, 2008

Beginning with the Raising of Lazarus, the Orthodox Holy Week services set before us each day scriptures, hymns, and liturgical actions that enable us to experience the saving events of Our Lord's work as realities in our time.

  • Holy Friday Evening
    Procession through the Cemetery
    Pictures by Heidi Robinson

  • Holy Saturday Morning
    Initiation of New Members
    Pictures by Heidi Robinson

  • Pascha Midnight
    The Resurrection Service
    Pictures by Steve and Christina Long
    • Holy Friday Evening
    Procession with the Epitaphios (Icon of the Shroud of Christ) through the old Clinton Cemetery adjacent to the Church

    Sunday of Orthodoxy - March 16

    Orthodox Christians celebrate the first Sunday of Great Lent as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, remembering the restoration of the Holy Icons to the Churches on this Sunday in A.D. 843, after they were suppressed about 90 years by heretical Byzantine emperors.

    In America it has become customary for all Orthodox Churches in a city or area to hold a service together in witness to our unity in the Faith. This year's service will be held at St. Peter Orthodox Church in Madison. Father John Henderson, Pastor of St. Peter's, will preach. St. Peter's recently completed an extensive renovation of their buildings, doubling the size of the Temple and adding a bell tower topped by a gold dome and cross.

    Other Churches participating include Holy Trinity and St. John the Theologian in Jackson, St. George's in Vicksburg, Christ the Saviour in McComb, and Holy Resurrection. The picture at right is of the 2006 service held at Holy Trinity and St. John the Theologian.

    The service will begin at 6 p.m. The public is invited to this service and fellowship afterwards.

    Directions to St. Peter's
    Orthodox Churches in Mississippi
    About Icons

    Great Lent Begins Monday, March 10

    Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian

    (Said on all weekdays of Great Lent)

    O Lord and Master of my life, Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust for power and idle talk.

    But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to thy servant.

    Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou unto ages of ages. Amen.

    Archbishop DMITRI's Lenten Letter

    Fr. Thomas Hopko on Great Lent

    What is Lent?

    On Forgiveness

    Lenten Services

    Mother Magdalena

    of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, spoke at Holy Resurrection February 12-14, 2008.

    Here are recordings of her talks.

     

  • February 12 - The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
  • February 13 - Joyful Prayer
  • February 14 - The Peace that Passes Understanding

    About Mother Magdalena

    Mother Magdalena grew up in a family of ten children, which she says was an excellent preparation for the monastic life. She has been a nun for 16 years. At the Monastery she manages the bookstore and does bookkeeping, gives retreats, and does other obediences as well as the monastic life of worship and prayer. Before becoming a nun, Mother Magdalena was involved in social work, as a counselor in an agency for teens and later as administrator of a school for children from homeless families. She has roots in Mississippi, with relatives who served in the Confederate army.

    About Holy Transfiguration Monastery