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By Eleni Sakellis groups targeting people on a religious holiday when they gather with their families to attend services, all ages together. Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! Christ is risen! Truly He is It would be easy to lose faith at such a moment, but it is vital risen! Following the long journey of Great Lent, we finally reach in these times to remain steadfast and remember that love is the the celebration of Pascha, Easter. Pascha is a time for church and basis of faith. It would be easier not to believe, not to forgive, family. not to embrace the teachings of Christ, not to love our Celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Anastasi is a neighbors, and not to turn the other cheek, but then the forces much bigger holiday in the Orthodox Christian tradition than of darkness would have won anyway. even Christmas. The days of preparation; the strict fasting of We should ask ourselves, do we really want to live in a world Great Lent; the many, beautiful church services leading up to the where people are afraid to practice their religion, whatever it holiday; bringing home the Holy Light to bless our homes – all may be? these add a special quality that cannot quite be explained to Freedom of religion is something we take for granted here in those who have not experienced it. the United States, but there are many places around the world The food is also a major part of the celebration. Inextricably where people suffer unspeakably for their faith and where the linked with the church-going is the dyeing of red eggs on Holy freedom of religion doesn’t exist at all or if it did at one time, it Thursday and the tremendous amount of cooking and baking is being gradually worn away by extremist views. It is especially leading up to the feast on Easter Sunday. The baking of vital in these times to stay informed about the world around us, lazarakia, koulourakia, tyropites, and flaounes brings families and not imagine that because we have certain freedoms that together to experience the traditions and recipes that have been everyone values and respects those same freedoms everywhere. passed down through the generations and connect us with our The true meaning of Pascha, the basis of the Christian faith, roots. The traditions also remind us of loved ones who are no the defeat of death and darkness by the light of faith in Jesus longer with us, who we know – through the Resurrection of Christ fills the season with hope and spirituality as no other time Jesus and the trampling down of death – are only asleep. During of year. these difficult times for so many people, when we hear about While we send our thoughts and prayers to those suffering continuing crises, families divided, the persecution of Christians, loss and heartbreak in the face of tragedy, we must also take an and ongoing wars, it is important to remember the less fortunate active role as Christians and stand up for the voiceless people and to pray for peace in world. everywhere living under oppression of all kinds. The terrible terrorist attack on the Christians celebrating Easter in Sri Lanka, which left hundreds dead, is a potent We wish everyone Kali Anastasi, Kalo Pascha, and Happy reminder that there is still evil in the world, that there are Easter! April 28th, 2019 is not ‘American Easter’, but Here’s Why it Really Ought to Be
By Dr. Constantinos E. causing me to reference to the Easter’, because it ignores a Hanukkah really falls on a Scaros Council of Nicaea and the major Christian denomination, different day.” Compounding Great Schism, which can make Protestant, which also happens the awkwardness is when n April 21st of for interesting conversation to be the largest in the United Western Easter falls on another this year and in over drinks and dinner, but States by far, which also prominent Orthodox holiday – the couple of days might cause the people behind celebrates Easter on the same Palm Sunday – as it did this preceding it, I me on line at the supermarket day as the Catholics do. year. I’m thinking to myself: Owas greeted by a waiting to pay for their The most accurate “no, today’s not the day of eggs few folks, from store cashiers groceries to grumble. terminology I have ever heard and Easter bonnets, it’s a day to passersby on the street, with Like many Greek- is ‘Eastern Easter’ and ‘Western of palms!” the benevolent wish of “Happy Americans, I grew up Easter’, and so ‘American And yes, there is a part of Easter”. My overt response is identifying the two events as Easter’ is an inaccurate term. I me that thinks silently: “my always to reciprocate – “thank ‘Greek Easter’ and ‘American propose, however, that it ought Easter celebration date is more you, same to you,” even Easter’. A good friend and to exist and apply, but in a correct than yours.” Oh, but though my Easter – this year former colleague – who is not different sense. not for the reasons you might and most years – falls on a Greek and is Catholic – once You see, I feel somewhat imagine. It’s not because different Sunday. told me of how funny that awkward saying “Happy Orthodox Easter is my “home Years ago, I did away with sounded to her over the years, Easter” when in my own mind team” and therefore it must be the lengthier but more when her own Greek-American I’m thinking “but it’s not really whose “side” I’m on, nor accurate explanation of: “thank friends would speak about Easter yet.” It has nothing to because I think Orthodoxy is you, but, actually, we ‘American Easter’. She said: do with whether I celebrate theologically flawless (I don’t). (Orthodox) celebrate Easter on “don’t they realize it’s Western Easter or not: I have Rather, it has to do with a _____,” because it would often celebrated all over the world no problem wishing someone a simple sense of history: Easter result in a barrage of questions on that day – England, France, “Happy Hanukkah,” which I is the acknowledgment and – particularly when the two Germany – not just America?” also do not celebrate, because celebration of Jesus Christ dates are several weeks apart – Another misnomer is ‘Catholic I’m not thinking “but rising to life again after having died on the cross, following his capture after celebrating Passover with his Disciples (The Last Supper), which means, of course, that Easter should always be celebrated after Passover. Otherwise, it would be like saying that the Declaration of Independence was signed before the Boston Massacre, the Intolerable Acts, and other actions by King George that caused the Colonies to declare their independence in the first place. Because to my recollection Eastern Orthodoxy has never celebrated Easter prior to Passover, whereas the Western Churches have. For that reason alone I consider the timing of Eastern Easter to be more historically accurate. Beyond which portion of Christianity has it “more correct” than the rest, it is also important for Christianity as a whole to have one, united Easter. Far from the sole reason being the awkwardness of explaining it to a supermarket cashier, the main reason, as the World Council of Churches (WCC) aptly explains, is that “by celebrating this feast of feasts on different days, the churches give a divided witness to this fundamental November. Similarly, Easter among the Christians in my aspect of the apostolic faith, should always be celebrated on own country – the United compromising their credibility the fourth Sunday in April, States. and effectiveness in bringing which this year is April 28, and Besides, America has long the Gospel to the world.” coincidentally is the date on led the world in progress, from Sure, traditionalists will which Eastern Easter is the invention of the electric stubbornly declare that we celebrated in 2019. light bulb, the telephone, the must stick to every detail What if the Orthodox in automobile, and the television stipulated in the other countries don’t follow set. Why should it not lead the aforementioned Council of this plan and stick to their own world in establishing a logical, Nicaea, which was held in Eastern Easter dates? Let ‘em! unified Easter? 325AD (1694 years ago), but While it would be great for Pay heed to the WCC’s we don’t. Certainly not insofar every Christian in the world to advice: if you’re trying to as Orthodox Churches use the celebrate Easter on the same attract skeptics to your faith, Gregorian calendar in every day (as long as it is after don’t turn them off by dogma other aspect of the practice of Passover), if there is any that has very little to do with their religion, not to mention division to be had, I’d rather it theology. their secular operations (such be among countries than as, the dates listed on their websites). Such dogma would do no good in resolving a greater concern, that our church pews continue to dwindle, as persons of all faiths in America – and in most parts of the world – continue to turn away from organized religion – which is different from faith – just as more and more politically active people in America become independent, as opposed to being registered Democrats or Republicans. 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By Harry Mark Petrakis house, and in my mother, sisters, and brothers. My father rose ear - When Spring comes each year lier and returned home much and the last frosted cold and later, sleeping only a few meager snow loosens from the crust of hours a night. In this time, de - the ground, in that season Perse - spite his weariness, a vibrance phone returns from the womb of radiated from him, and I under - Hades, and the Earth enters a cy - stand now it was his absorption cle of fertility once more. During into the ritual of the Passion. He this rebirth, there is enacted the mustered his strength for the rig - celebration of Easter, the most orous demands upon him, the significant ritual of the Greek Or - hours of confession he listened thodox Church, as it is for other to each day, the exhausting and Christians. lengthy services every night. The Easters of my childhood We moved through the early were a time of magic and antici - part of the week, attending pation, not the suspense that pre - church and then arriving at Holy ceded the beribboned packages Thursday, the night of the cruci - and ornamented trees of Christ - fixion, the agony of Christ on the mas but a more mystical and Cross lamented and shared. All haunting experience. morning and afternoon of Good These rituals gained added Friday the women and children importance in my heart because carried baskets upon baskets of my father was the priest of our flowers to decorate the parish church on South Michigan catafalque, which contained the Avenue, and his vivid image coffin of Christ, bedecking the dominated the whole of the Pas - bier with flowers twined within sion of Christ. I will never forget flowers. Until the last hour of the his tall, regal figure clad in the Good Friday services late that colorful and glittering vestments, night when the death of Christ leading the services of worship, was sanctified. hour neared toward midnight we "Kyrie Eleison, Lord Have Mercy," We would draw closer to - angel of the Lord or a his voice resounding to every But all our week moved to - pushed our way back to our chanted an old man with a face gether, my body pressed against Prometheus delivering the first corner of the church, his face ward the great revelation of Sat - places, accepting the reproving like a weathered spruce. "Kyrie my mother, drawing what com - flame to Man. glistening in the curling mist of urday night, the night of Anas - looks of the adults for our ab - Eleison," prayed the old, somber- fort I could from her nearness, And in the cloistered darkness candles and incense with the tasis or Ascension. From the sence. faced women in black. "Kyrie from the proximity of my broth - of the church, it was not only lambent glow of a prophet. And early part of the evening when By this time the crowd filled Eleison," chanted my father, and ers and sisters, my friends and our hands clasping our candles his marvelous, long, slender-fin - we first entered the portico of every pew, pressed into every the choir responded, "Kyrie Elei - their parents. There would be a that moved toward that solitary gered hands which, when he the church, whispering excitedly corner of the church. As the last son, Kyrie Eleison." holding of breath, a fastened si - flame but a yearning and hunger held them aloft, burst like pale to our friends, purchasing the few moments before midnight At midnight, the moment we lence, unbroken except for a few in our souls. We watched and flowers from the encirclement of long, slender white candles with elapsed, we stood thronged and had been waiting for, the packed small children whimpering, a waited impatiently as from that his sleeves. the tiny paper cups to catch the jammed together in a common and crowded church would be baby crying, an old man cough - lone candle the first of the other The Passion of Easter would drippings of wax, we waited in a bond. Perhaps the older people plunged into total darkness. To ing. candles were lit and people begin with forty days of fasting. fever of anticipation. All through remembered in those moments this day I can recall the chill Then a great exhilaration turned to light the candles of My father's fast would be strin - the hours of the evening we the Easters in their villages in the along my flesh as that blackness would sweep like a wind through those around them. The flames gent and relentless while ours shifted restlessly in our seats. old country, the services in small descended. For Jesus Christ was the tense and crowded church. leaped from candle to candle, was haphazard. But as we came Sometimes catching the eye of a churches on the slopes of the in that darkened church. I felt it For before us, in the confines of from pew to pew, until the entire closer to the beginning of Holy friend, we managed to slip from mountains. But for those of us in my bones, perhaps a haunted the Sanctuary which contained church was a great flowing, bob - Week, stricter attention was paid our pews, past the vigilant gaze too young to have such memo - and blooded memory of the the Altar table of marble, a sin - bing sea of a thousand candles, to our abstention from eggs, of the trustees, to gather giggling ries, the emotion of the antici - somber catacombs where our gle, flickering taper of flame ap - every dark recess, every hidden cheese, milk, butter, and meat. and whispering in the washroom pation had its particular flavor. forebears gathered to whisper peared. The flame moved for - and shadowed corner illumined. In our classrooms we were told and corridors of the basement. We listened to the voices of their prayers. Within the encom - ward, and as it emerged from As my own candle was lit, I and retold zealously the story of Often a trustee would zealously the black-robed and white-col - passing darkness was the pres - the Sanctuary, I saw my father, looked up at my mother and she Christ. drive us back up to church, but lared girls of the choir, led by the ence of His thorn-crowned and his hand holding aloft the can - smiled at me. I marveled at the An animation and excitement whether we were dispersed in sonorous and resonant baritone tormented head stirring within dle, his face glistening and dis - flame in my hands, at the communicated itself through our our loitering or not, as the final of our choirmaster, "Mr. George." the tomb. embodied with the beauty of an curlings of light and mist that trailed streamers about our heads and sent eerie shadows across the icons of the old, bearded saints. I looked up at the dome of the church where the great painted figure of God, the Father, loomed above our heads, and his stern visage seemed suddenly warm and be - nign. Then we joined in the singing of the Christos Anesti, Christ is Risen, the exquisite hymn that marks the jubilant acknowledg - ment of the Ascension of Christ. "Christos Anesti, ek nekron, Thanato, Thanaton patisas, kai tis en tis mnema si, zoe charisamenos." Three times the hymn was sung, our voices rising in a great swelling chorus of jubilation. From that moment the hymns and chants were anticlimactic, and those with small children be - gan to leave. My mother left with one of my brothers to complete the festivities that would begin when we arrived home. I fid - geted with one of my older sis - ters, anticipating the banquet ahead, every moment dragging like an hour. When the services ended and the church emptied, we emerged into the darkness of the middle hours of night. We passed little groups, families moving to their cars, shielding their still-burning candles carefully against the gusts of wind. "Christos Anesti, Christ is Risen," we called to one another. "Alithos Anesti, Truly He is Risen," we answered. When the cars pulled away, each inte - rior was illumined by the glow of candles, a strange procession Christ is Risen of glittering light sweeping into A the gloomy neighborhoods of the city. In our apartment the aroma from my mother's kitchen spread a savory fragrance across every room. All the weeks of fasting, however desultory or reluctant at times on our parts, blossomed suddenly into a ravenous hunger. And at the long festive table in our dining room, we sat down, relatives and friends, to the splendor of that meal. There was the thick, rich mageritsa soup made from sheep's entrails, chunks of roast lamb dripping spicy juices, hunks of warm bread, slabs of white feta cheese, dark, briny olives, and decanters of glistening amber retsina wine. At the head of our table, my fa - ther, radiating a glow that en - compassed all of us despite our weariness, picked up the first of the blood-red dyed Easter eggs, throwing down the first chal - lenge. Soon we were all cracking eggs with one another, victories and defeats sweeping us into laughter and shrill cries. In this way we passed the re - mainder of the festive night, and then as the first glimmers of dawn appeared against our win - dows, we went to bed. And I will remember as long as I live the marvelous, satisfying, and stom - ach-sated weariness of those dawns when I crawled gratefully into bed, my eyelids struggling to close, benevolent daylight peeping in around the corners of the shades, and the rooms about me grown strangely, consolingly 201790/72 Continued on page 6 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 27, 2019 Easter 2019 5
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Continued from page 4 to stand before us, the flame- giver and redeemer, and from his silent. candle a thousand candles will Long ago...so long ago. Al - spring into light. My mother will most thirty-five years have grow younger and vigorous once elapsed since then. Now as I en - more, age and weariness dimin - ter the church on the Saturday ished from her body as she thinks night before the Ascension, most of the feast to be served at home. of the people I see are strangers. But even as the first candle Those I still know are not as they emerges, I understand the past were even as I am no longer as I is gone; my father is gone, dead was. We have grown into middle now some twenty years. Another age together, some bald, some good priest emerges with the gray-haired, lean or portly. We candle to light our flames. Per - greet one another, smiling a haps in the darkened church his warm, lucent recognition of own son sits, watching and lis - pleasant memories we have tening, full of the pride and love shared, a melancholy for the I felt for my father. friends we have survived. That pretty girl resembles her father with whom I once played ball. That tall, handsome boy resem - bles his mother with whom I had once acted in the school plays. I see my sister, a widow now, my nephews with their pretty wives, my great-nephews and great- nieces around their legs. Inside the church, in the final hour before midnight, I stand be - side my mother as I did so many years ago. I tower above her now for she is grown old and white- haired, only her eyes still alert within the deep carved wrinkles of her face, her lips trembling as Easter will return next year, she follows the chanting of the and for as long as men live, even hymns. On the other side of me as Persephone emerges from the is my wife, who as a young girl womb of the Earth. The tomb of shared those memories I have of Christ will be decked with flow - long ago, still lovely despite the ers. His moments of agony and first gray strands in her thick redemption will be shared again black hair. And my youngest son and again on the darkened mid - beside her, shifting restlessly in nights of the Ascension and from shirt, tie, and suit coat, his black the solitary and consecrated first curly hair falling about his ears. flame, the thousand candles will Does he yearn to slip out and de - be lighted. The children will feel Easter scend into the basement corri - the haunting mystery of that mo - dors where I am sure a small ment even as my companions group of boys chatter and laugh, and I felt it, because it is the wary of the trustee who may enigma and celebration of the come to rout them? rebirth of the earth itself. Even As the moment of midnight when no child I knew as a child approaches, the crowd swells still lives, long after I am gone, Greetings and throngs together once more, there will be those who under - men and women stirring in an - stand that our lives are like the ticipation. The children push candles that come so fleetingly back to return to their places be - and flickeringly to life, tiny side their parents. An old magic flames that we seek to shield and returns to possess us. protect against the darkness and from The church is plunged into the wind. darkness and in the first on - Christos Anesti...Christ is slaught of blackness and silence, Risen...O my father...Christos I am hurled suddenly into the Anesti...O my mother...Christos past. A quiver of excitement Anesti...O my wife and my sons, b spreads through my body be - nephews and nieces, sisters and cause in a few moments the first brothers, companions of my consecrated candle will be car - youth, living and dead...Christos a The Spanos Family ried from within the Sanctuary. Anesti...Christ is Risen...Truly He 3240/ 23 And my father will return again, is Risen...Truly He is Risen.
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By Theodore Kalmoukos hard, uphill path of Golgotha, Holy Friday until Easter Sunday Metr. Alexios: “O tempore, and the way which leads to eter - (Easter Vigil and Agape Ser - O mores” (i.e. O, the times! O Metropolitan Alexios of At - nal life passes through the death vice), I return to the Cathedral the customs!). This line is from lanta offered an interview, or of our old sinful existence. We Community in Atlanta. This con - a speech of the Roman orator rather a theological and spiritual cannot have the one without the stitutes only a personal tradition Cicero. He used these words in conversation, to The National other. Forgive me for making of mine, not the rule, which one of his speeches to weep over Herald explaining and meditat - this comment, but we have to means that in some past years I the immorality of Rome. It is so ing on the sacred events of Holy be honest with ourselves at this have visited other communities sad to see that his words have Week and the Resurrection. point. and celebrated Easter with become contemporary once Our conversation started As Orthodox, we often like them. For this year, His Grace again. Unfortunately, the tradi - with the simple question of how to quote the Fathers, or the Bishop Sevastianos is going to tional way of living in both he planned to celebrate Holy hymns of the Church, and refer travel and visit our communities Greek, as well as in American Week and Pascha this year, and to the ‘Eighth Day of Creation’ in Florida, whereas I will travel society, where the Church held he replied by saying, “if one or the ‘New Creation’, but some - and visit the communities in the a significant role in our lives, were to interpret this question how, we fail to mention the spir - Carolinas and I will return to belongs to the past. Nowadays, in a secular way of thinking, one itual exercise ( άσκηση ) which Atlanta for Easter. our youth is taught at schools, could wonder whether this Holy we ought to practice. It would TNH: Do young people par - colleges, and universities that Week and Easter is going to be not be an exaggeration to say ticipate in the Church Services? everything related to God or re - like years past, or if something that we are always very eager Metr. Alexios: This question, ligion is anachronistic. The con - different will happen. Neverthe - to enjoy the benefits of work we I assume, is not only about Holy temporary honnete homme – Week services, but the entire cultivated man – is the one who year. Many things could be said has outsmarted God and lives or argued about here. On the his life in an absolutely secular one hand the statistics on the way. This being the case, we percentage of young people that cannot expect youngsters to walk away from the Church are keep coming to the Church sim - terrifying, but on the other we ply because we say so...More have to acknowledge that there than what we say to young peo - is a great effort and great ple, it matters how much time progress being made by priests, we spend to listen to what they youth directors, Sunday School have to say to us, about their teachers, and all kinds of vol - challenges, their hardships. unteers in order to confront this When Christ Himself was chal - great challenge. As I said, many lenged with “smart” questions, things could be said, but let us He outsmarted those who tried save it for another discussion, to put Him on the spot. But He which I would love to have with did not conquer the world be - you on this subject. cause of this. He conquered the Holy Week is usually a period world because He loved the Holy TriniTy CaTHedral CHarloTTe, nC during which young people at - world and gave His life for the Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta at the First Resurrection on tend Church Services. I will not world’s sake. All the same, fol - Great Saturday morning of 2018 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral say that this constitutes an ex - lowing His example, we need to in Charlotte, NC. Shown are Fr. Vasileios Tsourlis, Dean of the ception from the aforemen - educate our youth and make Cathedral, and Deacon Steven Potter. tioned discouraging statistics. I firm their faith, but mainly and will only say that there is hope. mostly, we need to make our People within my Metropolis of - another, always depending on Young people do attend Church youth understand that the ten call me “the flying Bishop”, their needs and challenges. Services during Holy Week more Church is here to love and care as they see me always travelling That said, this year, by God’s frequently and meticulously for them. If life is like a stormy from city to city and state to Grace, the Archdiocese has than the rest of the liturgical sea, the Church is like Noah’s less, the way that our Orthodox have not done, or to reap the state, as I strive to visit as many granted to us Bishop Sevas - year. Therefore, this could be a Ark, providing a safe shelter for Tradition urges us to receive this fruits of a seed we have not parishes and monasteries as I tianos, who, as an Auxiliary great message for us, the all the faithful. blessed period of the year is planted. For the upcoming Holy can. Over the years, I have ex - Bishop, also travels constantly Church leaders, to figure out TNH: What Easter is for you? deeper and esoteric. The pur - Week, I am planning not to perienced, and I keep experienc - and enhances the ministry of how our Church can be more Metr. Alexios: The answer pose of Great Lent is to prepare spend much time dealing with ing, the many and various needs our Metropolis. So, with no ex - inviting and appealing for to this question can be very pre - us for Holy Week; the purpose administrative affairs, so that I that a Church community might aggeration at all, we can say young people to come and at - dictable. Instead, I would go a of Holy Week is to commemo - will have the opportunity to get have. After all, the so-called that in the Metropolis of Atlanta tend all year long. Let us always step beyond and ask: what can rate the Passion of our Lord; and the most out of the Church Ser - flock of the Church is not an ab - the number of parishes and keep in mind that it is the Holy Easter become for us, for each the purpose of commemorating vices and the spiritual uplift stract collection, but actual peo - Monasteries scheduled for Epis - Spirit Who sustains and en - one of us? I believe this is a our Lord’s Crucifixion, death, which this period can grant to ple, with certain needs and cer - copal visits during Holy Week hances the Church, and thus we question that each one of us can and burial is to prepare us so the human soul. tain challenges. My ministry as will be doubled. should never see the glass as answer only on a personal level. that we will be able to partici - TNH: How many communi - their spiritual father and over - TNH: Do you visit different half empty, but always as half From the Tomb of Christ has pate in His Resurrection and the ties are you going to visit? seer ( επίσκοπος ) is to be close communities every year? full. sprung up life, grace, and for - New Creation it brings. Metropolitan Alexios: to them, and to provide guid - Metr. Alexios: I usually TNH: What do young people giveness of sins – it is up to us, In other words, the way Would it sound like a cliché to ance and to support them. Ac - travel and visit different com - ask regarding Holy Week, as however, to choose how hard which leads to the light of the say that it is not the quantity cordingly, I might spend more munities on the days of Holy well as the Orthodox Church in we will try to reach out for these Resurrection goes through the but the quality that matters? time with one community over Week up to Holy Thursday. On general? gifts.
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201699 /142 10 Easter 2019 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 27, 2019 Fr. Nicholas Anctil of Holy Trinity, New Rochelle, on the Journey to the Holy Anastasis
By Theodore Kalmoukos day of Lazarus retreat where all tasis Liturgy with around 300 the young children prepare the people, and the young people The Holy Trinity parish in Palms for Palm Sunday and even prepare the room with decora - New Rochelle, New York is a make "Lazarus Breads" in re - tions and set all the tables.” well-organized parish of the membrance of the Rising of Regarding questions the chil - Archdiocese. It is comprised of Lazarus. We do a procession dren ask about Holy Week, Fr. more than six hundred families with the children on Palm Sun - Nicholas said, “I have made it a but it serves many more in the day and also on Easter Sunday big part of my ministry over the area. Its presiding priest, Fr. at the end of the Agape Vesper years to speak to the children Nicholas Anctil, spoke to The Service. They read the Epistle every Sunday after the Gospel National Herald about the lessons on Holy Wednesday and lesson. I ask them questions and preparations, the Services, the assist in the preparation of the in return, they ask me questions participation, and generally the Church for Holy Friday Services. concerning the Gospel. I always climate at the parish during They also prepare the Church do my best to allow them to ask Holy Week and Pascha. following Holy Saturday morn - questions on Saturday of Fr. Nicholas said that, “be - ing Liturgy. We have a tremen - Lazarus, Palm Sunday, Holy ginning from the Saturday of dous dinner following the Anas - Wednesday and Holy Friday af - Lazarus, all I do is concentrate ternoon. The children are al - . Υ on conducting the Holy Services Fr. Nicholas Anctil, presiding . ways asking "why" did Christ Ν
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Fr. Evangelos Evangelidis, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private cargo ship brought presiding priest of the Annunci - the makings of an Easter feast to the International Space Station ation parish in Stamford, Con - on Friday, along with mice and little flying robots. necticut, spoke to The National Space station astronaut Anne McClain used a robot arm to Herald about the Great and capture Northrop Grumman's Cygnus capsule as they soared Holy Week and the “Feast of 258 miles (415 kilometers) above France. Feasts”, Holy Pascha in his The Cygnus and its 7,600-pound (3,450-kilogram) shipment parish. rocketed from Wallops Island, Virginia, on Wednesday, com - The parish is comprised of pleting the trip in a quick day and a half. It holds numerous three hundred families who con - science experiments, including 40 mice taking part in a tetanus tribute financially, but it also vaccination study, and three boxy free-flying robots designed serves another two hundred to assist astronauts inside and out. families who attend Church Ser - NASA also packed more than 800 meals for the six station vices. residents. Their holiday choices include pork chops with gravy, Fr. Evangelos said that, “this smoked turkey, potatoes au gratin, lemon meringue pudding year, like every year, I am going and apricot cobbler. to conduct the holy services for Northrop Grumman named this Cygnus the S.S. Roger Chaf - Holy Week and Pascha with rev - fee after the youngest of the three astronauts who died in the erence, solemnity, and humility, Apollo 1 spacecraft fire in 1967. Chaffee was the only one on contemplating God’s great love the crew who never made it to space. for us that is experienced "It's great to have the S.S. Roger Chaffee officially on board," through our Lord’s Passion and McClain radioed. "We never forget that we stand on the shoul - His Resurrection from the dead ders of giants. Please know that every day we remember his for our salvation and being with sacrifice and that we will continue to honor his legacy by pur - God forever.” suing his passion for exploration. To the S.S. Roger Chaffee, He said that, “each year your welcome aboard." community has a Paschal Meal Two hours after its arrival, the capsule was anchored onto after the Anastasis Service for all the space station by flight controllers working remotely from T our parishioners so that we may u ABOVE: Fr. Evangelos Evan - Houston. The Cygnus will remain there until July, when it is C i share in the joy of our Lord’s T gelidis, presiding priest of the released with trash for a few months of solo orbiting in a test C e
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By Eleni Sakellis Classic Salad with Feta
The star of the Easter feast is usually the meat, or more specifically, • 1 head romaine lettuce lamb. Roasting whole animals on the souvla goes back to prehistory at • 2-3 small cucumbers • 2-3 roma tomatoes least, but Greeks have of course managed to perfect the technique • 1 large red onion, thinly over time. The feast is incomplete without some side dishes to sliced complement that perfectly roasted lamb or goat or pork or all of those • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano • Greek sea salt and freshly other meats you plan to serve this Easter. Salads add freshness to any ground pepper, to taste meal and spanakopita is a classic. If there is any room after that, • 2-4 tablespoons red wine enjoy a whimsical Easter cake which is not too difficult to prepare but vinegar • Greek extra virgin olive oil always impresses the kids. • 1 cup feta, Dodonis or Arahovas • Olives, of your choice (optional)
Rinse the lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes, and pat dry with To the entire Greek Community a paper towel or spin dry in a salad spinner. Chop the lettuce, And Orthodox Christians everywhere. cucumbers, and tomatoes and transfer to a large salad bowl. Toss together with the sliced red onion and the oregano. Season much as possible to remove the with salt, and freshly ground excess liquid. Once the onion is Χριστός Ανέστη pepper to taste. Add the red softened, add the cheese mix - wine vinegar, drizzle with Greek ture and the squeezed spinach. extra virgin olive oil, and toss Mix well. From K.M. the salad. Add feta cut into On a clean work surface small, bite-sized chunks or in lightly dusted with flour, place one large piece on top of the one puff pastry sheet. Roll it out A sincere Supporter salad, and olives, if using. Driz - to a 12x12-inch square. Place zle with additional olive oil and the rolled out pastry in a baking of The National Herald a sprinkle of oregano, if pre - pan and add the filling. Turn the ferred, and serve. corners in to cover the filling. It's ok even if the filling is not completely covered. If preferred, Fennel Salad brush with edges of the pastry with egg wash. Bake the pie in the preheated oven at 375 de - • 1-2 fennel bulbs grees for 45 minutes. Cut the • Lemon pie in serving portions after it • Greek sea salt has cooled down. Serve with • Freshly ground pepper Hatzimichalis Cabernet Sauvi - • Greek extra virgin olive oil gnon imported from Fantis Four Recipes for • 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg Foods.
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By Constantine S. Sirigos rally, is totally absorbed with… of his life. computers. He found a way to organize ATHENS – Holy Week in Baloukos grasps how he his life so he could go more and Greece and the Diaspora is the learned to hold pencils to sketch more often. time when people who don’t and brushes later to paint, but “Through the Grace of God I think much about Church find one thing is a complete mystery gradually learned both the art all five senses pulling them deep to him, his mastery of color. He of iconography and the craft of into their ancient faith and roots learned much that he values being a printer,” and opened his – incense, chanting, touching from books, especially the bible own business. and kissing – but most of all see - and religious books he read One recent morning, he re - ing, draws them in, and what from childhood, but he simply ceived a message inviting him they mainly notice in Church are can’t say how he learned to use to participate in an exhibition the creations of people like color the marvelous way he being organized by the Central Christos Baloukos and his wife does. Asia nation of Kyrgyzstan in the Lina – the iconographers who What he does know is that context of China’s Belt’s and embellish Orthodox life world - as soon as he read about the Roads initiative and inspired by wide. Holy Mountain, the renowned the cultural exchanges that were While Baloukos’ fellow monasteries of Mt. Athos, he facilitated in the past by the an - iconographers – he paints indi - could not stop thinking about cient Silk Road. vidual icons – are gratified to them, until… He is delighted to be able to see people marvel and being “One summer, in Athens, introduce the spirituality and drawn closer to God by what when I was 23 and my parents glory of Byzantine Civilization they find inside the churches were in Evoia on holiday; with - to that part of the world, to vis - where they have worked, he out telling anyone I went there, itors,and fellow exhibitors. also feels a supplementary mis - having no idea what to expect The exhibition will take place sion when he visits places like outside what I read in books.” in Bishkek, the capital, this monasteries for inspiration and Once he arrived the experi - June. lessons in iconography. When he ences and people he would “I sent them some of my returns to his community and never forget began to present work, and I was very touched city, he wants to share what he themselves immediately. He was to see how much they looked has learned about spirituality not yet an iconographer – his forward to my participation.” there, what the holy fathers work was just work, as a typog - And he too can’t wait for the taught him about how all of us can live the Life in Christ outside the monastery walls, in our homes and in all our relation - ships. That is part of the rhythm he has established in his life in the world, but not of it. There is no doubt, however, that the spiritual depths he plumbs, along with the echoes of the Jesus prayer he silently recites, are reflected in the icons he paints, which are as rich in faith as they are in color and texture. Asking artists and musicians about the roots of their talent usually leads to interesting na - ture/nurture discussions. Baloukos does not call himself an artist – those who see his evocative creations, especially those where nature plays a star - ring role will disagree – but the artistic ability is obvious. He notes that his mother draws, and while he grew up in Athens, his roots and frequent visits in Northern Evoia, one of Greece’s more picturesque locales, surely were inspirational, but after talking to him about his activites imaGes CourTesy of CHrisTos Baloukos. and life, his beliefs about the TOP: Christos Baloukos does not aim at photorealism, but one must look very closely at some source of his talent are clear: of his images, like this one of the renowned Iviron Monastery, to be sure they are paintings. they are gifts from God and his ABOVE: From the boat the monk is about to board are sold their handicrafts, and the proceeds work is a calling. are used to feed the poor. LEFT: The monks Christos Baloukos paints are presented without And while he loved drawing names, but their images draw observers into their souls. from childhood, his path also led through love, not just rapher, another employee mak - pletely different from anything never knew existed – and I said was not his path; nevertheless, new knowledge and experience school. His wife Lina, whom he ing a living. I knew. I saw people living a to myself ‘I must live here.’” he thought seriously about how the journey will bring. met at 17 years old, is also an “I found something on the completely different kind of life. He thought about becoming he could combine what he Visit his works at: iconographer. Their son, natu - Holy Mountain, something com - I discovered a part of myself I a monk, but understood that found at Mt. Athos with the rest www.baloukos.com. Easter Salads, Spanakopita, and Dessert
Continued from page 18 Greek Islands • 4 tablespoons ricotta cheese is finished, butter the top sheets 253-17 Northern Boulevard, Lit - • 2 cups Combo Feta Cheese of phyllo and bake the pita in Dessert: A Whimsical squeeze it to remove the excess tle Neck, NY 11363 • 1 egg the preheated 350-degree oven liquid, and chop it. Place 8 www.georgesgreekislands.com • 3-4 cups finely chopped for half an hour. Remove the Easter Cake sheets of phyllo dough in a 20- For reservations: 718-279-5922 spinach baking pan from the oven after inch baking dish, brushing each • Parsley, green onions, salt, 5 minutes to score the pita into For the chocolate cake: with olive oil. Add the filling pepper, oregano rectangular pieces. When • 3 cups unbleached, all- and place 8 more sheets of Spanakokreatopita • Kontos Pastry Sheets, Fillo cooked, fully cut the pieces. Bon purpose flour phyllo brushing them each with No. 7 appétit! • 2 cups sugar olive oil. Preheat the oven to (Spinach and meat pie) Serve with red wine. • 6 tablespoons unsweetened 325 degrees and bake the pie by Nikos Pantelatos Cook the ground meat with cocoa powder for 50 or 60 minutes. Serve with all the above ingredients, except Specialty of Strokos Deli • 2 teaspoons baking soda olive oil Moschofilero of the Spyropoulos the phyllo. Butter a full-sized 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, • 1 teaspoon Greek sea salt • 2 tablespoons white vinegar family or with Malamatina Serves 12 baking pan and each of the two New York, NY 10025 • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla • 2 cups cold water retsina. sheets of phyllo then add the 212-666-2121 extract • 2 lbs Angus ground beef filling until it's used up. Once it • 3/4 cup Greek extra virgin For the decoration: • White frosting • Red licorice • Candy-coated chocolate eggs • Marshmallow peeps • Mini-marshmallows • Colorful sprinkles
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1 / 9 2 1 2 0 a 201286/426 2 22 Easter 2019 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 27, 2019 National Archaeological Museum Offers Free Art Workshops for Children in Easter Week
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The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is organizing special free activities for children over the upcoming Easter Week, to help them release their creativity and imagination.
Children will therefore have the opportunity to participate in educational activities about the ancient Greeks’ sense of beauty, on occasion of the Museum’s new periodical exhibition ‘The Countless Faces of the Beautiful’, which will be accompanied by a visual workshop. They will tour the exhibition and will closely observe objects featuring different expressions of aesthetics over the centuries, with the guidance of an archaeologist.
They will also be able to collect information on the idea of Happy Easter beauty in ancient societies as revealed in vase representations and myths.
Finally, with the help of the museum’s resident painter, children will participate in a workshop to make their own art Καλό Πάσχα inspired by the relevant exhibits.
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By Brent Landau of winter. attention. As historian Stephen Spring also means the com - Nissenbaumwrites, “…children On April 21, most Christians ing back to life of plants and were lumped together with will be celebrating Easter, the trees that have been dormant other members of the lower or - day on which the resurrection for winter, as well as the birth ders in general, especially ser - of Jesus is said to have taken of new life in the animal world. vants and apprentices – who, place. The date of celebration Given the symbolism of new life not coincidentally, were gener - changes from year to year. and rebirth, it was only natural ally young people themselves.” The reason for this variation to celebrate the resurrection of From the 17th century on - is that in the West Easter always Jesus at this time of the year. ward, there was an increasing falls on the first Sunday after The naming of the celebra - recognition of childhood as time the first full moon following the tion as “Easter” seems to go of life that should be joyous, not spring equinox. So, in 2020, back to the name of a pre-Chris - simply as preparatory for adult - Easter will be celebrated on tian goddess in England, Eostre, hood. This “discovery of child - April 12, and on April 4 in 2021. who was celebrated at begin - hood” and the doting upon chil - I am a religious studies ning of spring. The only refer - dren had profound effects on scholar specializing in early ence to this goddess comes from how Easter was celebrated. Christianity, and my research the writings of the Venerable It is at this point in the holi - shows that this dating of Easter Bede, a British monk who lived day’s development that Easter goes back to the complicated in the late seventh and early eggs and the Easter bunny be - origins of this holiday and how eighth century. As religious stud - come especially important. Dec - it has evolved over the cen - ies scholar Bruce Forbes sum - orated eggs had been part of the turies. marizes: “Bede wrote that the Easter festival at least since me - Easter is quite similar to month in which English Chris - dieval times, given the obvious other major holidays like Christ - tians were celebrating the res - symbolism of new life. A vast mas and Halloween, which have urrection of Jesus had been amount of folklore surrounds evolved over the last 200 years called Eosturmonath in Old Easter eggs, and in a number of or so. In all of these holidays, English, referring to a goddess Eastern European countries, the Christian and non-Christian (pa - named Eostre. And even though process of decorating them is ex - gan) elements have continued Christians had begun affirming tremely elaborate. Several East - to blend together. the Christian meaning of the cel - ern European legends describe ebration, they continued to use eggs turning red (a favorite color EASTER AS A RITE OF the name of the goddess to des - for Easter eggs) in connection SPRING ignate the season.” with the events surrounding Je - Most major holidays have Bede was so influential for Jewish people were again under Some early Christians chose 14 of Nisan. As a result, Easter sus’ death and resurrection. some connection to the chang - later Christians that the name the dominance of foreign pow - to celebrate the resurrection of is now celebrated on the first Yet it was only in the 17th ing of seasons. This is especially stuck, and hence Easter remains ers (namely, the Romans). Jew - Christ on the same date as the Sunday after the first full moon century that a German tradition obvious in the case of Christ - the name by which the English, ish pilgrims streamed into Jewish Passover, which fell of the vernal equinox. of an “Easter hare” bringing mas. The New Testament gives Germans and Americans refer Jerusalem every year in the around day 14 of the month of eggs to good children came to no information about what time to the festival of Jesus’ resurrec - hope that God’s chosen people Nisan, in March or April. These THE EASTER BUNNY AND be known. Hares and rabbits of year Jesus was born. Many tion. (as they believed themselves to Christians were known as Quar - EASTER EGGS had a long association with scholars believe, however, that be) would soon be liberated todecimans (the name means In early America, the Easter spring seasonal rituals because the main reason Jesus’ birth THE CONNECTION WITH once more. “Fourteeners”). festival was far more popular of their amazing powers of fer - came to be celebrated on De - JEWISH PASSOVER On one Passover, Jesus trav - By choosing this date, they among Catholics than Protes - tility. cember 25 is because that was It is important to point out eled to Jerusalem with his dis - put the focus on when Jesus tants. For instance, the New When German immigrants the date of the winter solstice that while the name “Easter” is ciples to celebrate the festival. died and also emphasized con - England Puritans regarded both settled in Pennsylvania in the according to the Roman calen - used in the English-speaking He entered Jerusalem in a tri - tinuity with the Judaism out of Easter and Christmas as too 18th and 19th centuries, they dar. world, many more cultures refer umphal procession and created which Christianity emerged. tainted by non-Christian influ - brought this tradition with Since the days following the to it by terms best translated as a disturbance in the Jerusalem Some others instead preferred ences to be appropriate to cele - them. The wild hare also be - winter solstice gradually be - “Passover” (for instance, Temple. It seems that both of to hold the festival on a Sunday, brate. Such festivals also tended came supplanted by the more come longer and less dark, it “Pascha” in Greek) – a refer - these actions attracted the at - since that was when Jesus’ to be opportunities for heavy docile and domestic rabbit, in was ideal symbolism for the ence, indeed, to the Jewish fes - tention of the Romans, and that [empty] tomb was believed to drinking and merrymaking. another indication of how the birth of “the light of the world” tival of Passover. as a result Jesus was executed have been found. The fortunes of both holidays focus moved toward children. as stated in the New Testament’s In the Hebrew Bible, around the year AD. 30. In A.D. 325, the Emperor changed in the 19th century, As Christians celebrate the Gospel of John. Passover is a festival that com - Some of Jesus’ followers, Constantine, who favored Chris - when they became occasions to festival this spring in commem - Similar was the case with memorates the liberation of the however, believed that they saw tianity, convened a meeting of be spent with one’s family. This oration of Jesus’ resurrection, Easter, which falls in close prox - Jewish people from slavery in him alive after his death, expe - Christian leaders to resolve im - was done partly out of a desire the familiar sights of the Easter imity to another key point in the Egypt, as narrated in the Book riences that gave birth to the portant disputes at the Council to make the celebration of these bunny and Easter eggs serve as solar year: the vernal equinox of Exodus. It was and continues Christian religion. As Jesus died of Nicaea. The most fateful of holidays less rowdy. a reminder of the holiday’s very (around March 20), when there to be the most important Jewish during the Passover festival and its decisions was about the sta - But Easter and Christmas ancient origins outside of the are equal periods of light and seasonal festival, celebrated on his followers believed he was tus of Christ, whom the council also became reshaped as domes - Christian tradition. darkness. For those in northern the first full moon after the ver - resurrected from the dead three recognized as “fully human and tic holidays because understand - latitudes, the coming of spring nal equinox. days later, it was logical to com - fully divine.” This council also ings of children were changing. This is an updated version of a is often met with excitement, as At the time of Jesus, Passover memorate these events in close resolved that Easter should be Prior to the 17th century, chil - piece published on March 21, it means an end to the cold days had special significance, as the proximity. fixed on a Sunday, not on day dren were rarely the center of 2018. (Associated Press).
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VIEWPOINT Holy Week: A Week-Long Journey to the Holy Resurrection
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sition from Lent to Holy Week. p crucifixion and burial of On Saturday we celebrated the a Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Raising of Lazarus by Christ on Old City. the fourth day. This is a foretaste of the Common Resurrection that we all will experience on the Day of Judgment, thus the Second Coming of Christ. On Palm Sunday we marked Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. This was also His last Week are known as the Bride - visit into Jerusalem before His groom Services. Christ is the Crucifixion and Resurrection. As Bridegroom and His bride is the we heard in the Gospel reading Church. He is prepared to suffer last Sunday: “Behold, we are go - and lay down His life for His ing up to Jerusalem; and the Beloved Wife, the Church. The Son of Man will be delivered to icon of the Bridegroom is also the chief priests and the scribes, an image of marriage in the Or - and they will condemn Him to thodox Church. Both husband death, and deliver Him to the and wife should follow the ex - Gentiles; and they will mock ample of Christ, willing to strug - Him, and spit upon Him, and gle and sacrifice for the love scourge Him, and kill Him; and they have for their significant after three days He will rise.” other. On Wednesday, we have (Mk 10: 33-34). the service of the washing of Throughout the week, we feet. At the Last Supper, Christ hear hymns and Gospel read - washed the feet of His Apostles, ings that speak about His Pas - denoting His prime example of sion and we lament. However, humility and love. Holy Thurs - there is an anticipated joy that day morning, we will be cele - awaits. Christ voluntarily en - brating the institution of the dures His Passion, Crucifixion, Holy Eucharist at the Liturgy of and Entombment for the re - Saint Basil. An extra Host is pre - demption of mankind. As we see pared in which the priest takes in an icon of the Resurrection, the existing Host or reserve Christ redeems Adam and Eve, deemed from the perils of people still die? Many ask this one will enter His Kingdom. At say to you, I am the door of the Communion from the Ar - the original ancestors of Hades. Death is being defeated question and are baffled by it. the Second Coming, the Last sheep. All who ever came before tophorion in the altar and re - mankind. We began this journey by the death of our Lord and Each of us will certainly die an Judgment, both the living and Me are thieves and robbers, but places it with a new One. This on Cheesefare Sunday, the day Savior Jesus Christ. Christ de - earthly death but the righteous the dead will be judged and the sheep did not hear them. I small amount of Holy Commu - we remember the expulsion of scends into Hades where He re - will inherit eternal life in the their permanent destination de - am the door. If anyone enters nion is kept there all year on re - Adam and Eve from the Garden deems mankind (we visually see Kingdom of Heaven. Prior to Je - cided. However, with His volun - by Me, he will be saved, and will serve for those who are sick or of Eden, thus Paradise. Now the this in the Resurrection icon sus’ Crucifixion and Resurrec - tary death, the potential to enter go in and out and find pasture.” not able to make it to Church. journey is coming to a close with the depiction of chains and tion, there was no access to His Kingdom was made possi - Christ is indeed the Door and Later that evening is the reading with the redemption of the said locks being broken apart) and Heaven. It was Christ’s volun - ble. The door is now open, the One who shatters the gates of the Twelve Gospels which ancestors. Adam and Eve along raises them up with Him in His tary death which opens the door where before it was closed. As of Hades, ushering mankind speak about His Passion and with all the generations of their Resurrection. for access into His Kingdom. we hear in the Gospel of John into His Kingdom. Crucifixion. descendants are being re - But how is death defeated if This does not mean that every - (verse 7-9): “Most assuredly, I The first three nights of Holy On Good Friday, the only day in the year where a Divine Liturgy is not celebrated, we cel - ebrate the Royal Hours, Apokathelosis (taking down of Christ from the Cross) and the Lamentations. The Lamenta - tions are the funeral service for Christ, His Burial and Descent into Hades. On Holy Saturday morning, the liturgical service is a transi - tional one. It is the Vespral Di - vine Liturgy of Saint Basil just like on Holy Thursday, but it is known as the First Resurrection, or Anticipated Resurrection ser - vice. It is a day of rest and strict fast, since we remember Christ in Hades but also anticipate His imminent Resurrection as He shatters the gates of Hades and redeems mankind. It is custom in some parishes to see a transi -
It is indeed a week of Wishing you and your loved ones journey and transition, of lament, but also joy. Let us all make every attempt Καλό Πάσχα! Καλή Ανάσταση! not just simply to attend but be transformed.
tion of purple garments on the priest and the other cloths throughout the Sanctuary to Thank you for your support! white garments which signify Life, thus the Resurrection of Christ. Later that evening on We will not rest until there is justice for the people of Cyprus Saturday, going into early Sun - day morning is the Paschal Vigil where, of course, we all will be and an end to the desecration of our churches. saying Χριστός Ανέστη, Christ is Risen. It is indeed a week of journey and transition, of lament, but 45 years of occupation are enough! also joy. Let us all make every attempt to attend each of these magnificent and beautiful ser - The International Coordinating Committee Justice for Cyprus vices of Holy Week. Most impor - tantly, may each of us not just Philip Christopher, President simply attend but be trans - formed. Let us all remember the prayer read at each of the Pre- Sanctified Liturgies of Great Lent: “Almighty Lord, You have created all things in wisdom. In Your inexpressible providence TURKEY: FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW, and great goodness You have brought us to these saving days, for the cleansing of our souls ABIDE BY UN RESOLUTIONS, GET OUT OF CYPRUS! and bodies, for control of our #WorstAllyEver passions, in the hope of the Res - urrection. After the forty days Turkey has proven to the US to be the You delivered into the hands of Your servant Moses the tablets of the law in characters divinely traced. Enable us also, O benev - olent One, to fight the good fight, to complete the course of the fast, to keep the faith invio - b late, to crush underfoot the 2
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