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DID YOU KNOW? EPITAPHIOS May 3
The Epitaphios is a large, beautiful cloth with an embroidered icon of Christ’s dead body lying on the tomb. While Christ appears to sleep, He has descended into Hades to release the captive souls of ...
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Homily for the Vespers of Agape - The Holy and Great Pascha
This truly is the Day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice together and be glad in it! [1] What a blessing to have arrived at the Holy Pascha of the Lord, and especially to celebrate it here at Holy ...
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Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Service of the Lamentations
In this, our holy Epitaphios Service, we read this prophecy and the vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones, after our chants of eager expectation in the resurrection of the Life in the Tomb – Ἡ Ζωὴ ἐν ...
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Archbishop Elpidophoros of America joins St. Paraskevi Community in Greenlawn, NY Holy Saturday Morning
Fr. John Vlahos and the faithful of St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church in Greenlawn, NY welcomed His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to their community on Holy Saturday morning, ...
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Orthros of Holy Saturday at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at Ground Zero
At St. Nicholas Shrine, the procession of the Epitaphios around the Church is particularly emotional; the Shrine was the only house of worship destroyed on September 11, 2001 and has resurrected with ...
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DID YOU KNOW? Christ the Bridegroom April 29
In Sacred Scripture, Christ is described as “Bridegroom” though He is not married to a woman. Christ is “betrothed” to the Church, who is described as “bride, the wife of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:10).
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Archbishop Elpidophoros Presides over Great Vespers of the Descent from the Cross at St. Michael's Home
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros presided over the service of the Great Vespers of the Descent from the Cross on Holy and Great Friday today, Friday, May 3, 2024, at Saint Michael’s Home in ...
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First Bridegroom Service for Great and Holy Monday at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Whitestone, NY
The community of Holy Cross Church in Whitestone, NY and parish priest Fr. Nicholas Paros welcomed His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America for the service of Orthros of Holy Monday, which ...
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Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) Highlights Palm Sunday in Uganda
His Grace Bishop Silvester concelebrated the hierarchical Divine Liturgy with His Eminence Metropolitan Innocentios of Sozusa at Panagia Paramythia - Mukongoro parish to observe the glorious and ...
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Service of the Twelve Gospels at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church Flushing, NY
On Holy Thursday in the Greek Orthodox Church we hear the emotion of the Twelve Gospels as we commemorate the death of Christ on the Cross. On this sacred and solemn day His Eminence Archbishop ...
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AHEPA Family Helps Inaugurate Greek Language Laboratory at Ohio State University
The AHEPA Family was honored to take part in the Inauguration of the Laboratory for the Study of Greek Language and the Establishment of the Brian D. Joseph Fund for Greek Dialectology at the Ohio ...