Journey to Pascha Series

Welcome to the Journey to Pascha page! Explore all the lessons in this series, carefully arranged in numerical order to guide you through the themes, practices, and spiritual depth of Great Lent and Holy Week.

Triodion

Lesson #1:  Triodion Week 1: The Public and the Pharisee

Lesson #2:  Triodion Week 2: The Prodigal Son Returns

Lesson #3: Triodion Week 3 - The Last Judgement (Meatfare)

Lesson #4: Journey to Pascha Series: Ash Wednesday in the West and How Lent is Theologically Different for the Orthodox

Lesson #5: Forgiveness Vespers in Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Great Lent

Lesson #6: 1st Week of Lent; Adam & Eve Expelled from Paradise,  Cheesefare Sunday & Forgiveness Sunday  

Lesson #7: The Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete: Origins, Liturgical Practice, and Theological Significance

Lesson #8: The Penitential Practice of Prostrations in Eastern Orthodox Ascetical Practice

Lesson #9: The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts: Origins, Liturgical Practice, and Theological Significance

Lesson #10: The Passions in the Orthodox Concept

Lesson #11: Saturday of St Theodore the Recruit 

Lesson #12: The FIRST Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy: Origins and the Restoration of Icons

Lesson #13: The Liturgical Changes During Lent and their Theological Significance 

Lesson #14: The Recitation of the Psalter During Lent

Lesson #15: The SECOND Sunday of Great Lent: St. Gregory Palamas and the Vision of Divine Grace

Lesson #16: Uncreated Light in the Orthodox Concept: An Introduction to the Essence-Energies Distinction 

Lesson #17: The THIRD Sunday of Lent: The Veneration of the Cross 

Lesson #18: The 4th Sunday of Lent: The Ladder of Divine Ascent  

Lesson #19: The "24 Stichera by Simon the Translator" 

Lesson #19b: Fifth Friday of Lent;  The Akathist 

Lesson #20: The 5th Sunday of Lent; St Mary of Egypt

Lesson #21: The Theological Significance of the Hymn of Kassiani

Journey to Pascha Series - Lesson #22:  Lazarus Saturday: The Theological and Eschatological Significance

Journey to Pascha Series - Lesson #23: Selected Hymnography of Lazarus Saturday

Journey to Pascha Series - Lesson #24: The Lazarus Saturday Troparion and Kontakion

Journey to Pascha Series - Lesson #25: The Feast of Palms

Holy Week

Journey to Pascha Series; Great and Holy Monday  (Sung on Sunday Evening)

Journey to Pascha Series; Great and Holy Tuesday  (Sung on Monday Evening)

Journey to Pascha Series; Great and Holy Wednesday (Sung on Tuesday Evening)

Journey to Pascha Series; Great and Holy Thursday (Sung on  Holy Thursday Morning)

Journey to Pascha Series; The 12 Passion Gospels (Sung on Holy Thursday Evening)

Journey to Pascha Series:Royal Hours (Sung on Great and Holy Friday Morning)  

Journey to Pascha Series: Vespers of the Burial of Christ (Sung on Great and Holy Friday Afternoon)  

Journey to Pascha Series: Matins of Lamentation (Sung on Great and Holy Friday Evening)

Journey to Pascha Series: Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday (Sung on Great and Holy Saturday Morning)

Holy Week Summary

PASCHA! 

Paschal Vigil: Nocturne, Rush Procession, Matins, Liturgy

Sunday Afternoon Paschal Vespers

Red Eggs and Easter Bunnies 

Pascha, Πάσχα, Not Easter

Bright Week

Post-Paschal Blues: Maintaining the Joy of the Resurrection in the Tomb of the World 

Pentecostarion

Thomas Sunday