Christ is Risen!
What a glorious Pascha!
Paschal Procession
Holy Friday Procession
Here we are blessing the “flesh meats” and “curdled milk”.
Metropolitan Tikhon has given us a theologically rich reflection on Pascha.
Here is Archbishop Benjamin’s last Pascha message as our ruling hierarch. In it he says that he will continue to love us. Truly, he has excelled at showing love to us at Saint Luke.
Many thanks to all of the singers, servers, bakers, cooks, cleaners, donors and doers, who put in the so much effort to make Holy Week and Pascha so beautiful.
This is called Bright Week in the Orthodox Church. We do not pray the prayer, “O Heavenly King” until Pentecost. During this week we do not fast (except for the normal fasting practice before the Divine Liturgy), and instead of morning and evening prayers, we read the Paschal Hours, which are published in all full-sized prayer books. You can find these prayers here:
