Holy Pascha Week Booklet 2025
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St. Mary & St. Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church
Reaching out to Somerset and Hunterdon Counties in NJ
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Palm SundayEntry of our Lord into Jerusalem During the Palm Sunday liturgy, the Church commemorates the entry of our Lord into Jerusalem. We read the Gospel according to St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John. On Palm Sunday, as Jesus was heading to Jerusalem from Bethany, the place where He raised Lazarus from…
The eyes of the Lord are rays of light, which lighten those who are in the darkness and in the shadow of death. The tongue of Christ is full of life for everyone whom death has conquered. The hands of Christ are restorers of life, with which He aids all and sets them on their feet. The garments of Christ are restorers…
Now Jesus is the Word of God which goes into the soul that is called Jerusalem, riding on the donkey freed by the disciples from its bonds. That is to say, in the simple language of the Old Testament, interpreted by the two disciples who loose it: in the first place he who applies what…
St. John Chrysostom Now in the morning as He returned into the city, “He hungered” (Matt 21:18). How is He hungered in the morning? When He permits the flesh, then it shows its feeling. “And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only (Matt 21:19) Another evangelist says, “The time…
You who were present yesterday remember my promise; which with the Lord’s assistance is to be made good today, not to you only, but to the may others also who have come together. It is no easy question, who the ten virgins are, of whom five are wise, and five foolish. Nevertheless, according to the…
Let us, then, mourn for a time, that we may rejoice for eternity. Let us fear the Lord, let us anticipate Him with the confession of our sins, let us correct our backslidings and amend our faults, lest of us too it be said: “Woe is me, my soul, for the godly man is perished from the earth, and there is none…
Let us come now to the Gospel of God. I find the Lord stripping Himself of His garments, and girding Himself with a towel, pouring water into a basin, and washing the disciples’ feet (Jn. 13:4). That heavenly dew was this water, this was foretold, namely, that the Lord Jesus Christ would wash the feet of His disciples in that heavenly dew.…
For we have learned to believe in and to teach the Deity of the Son from their great and lofty utterances. And what utterances are these? These: God The Word He That Was In The Beginning and With The Beginning, and The Beginning. “In the Beginning was The Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” (Jn. 1:1)…
Something strange is happening there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and He has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and…