Archive for April 2018

Today is the first day of our Holy Week Journey to Pascha. Last night, in a darkened Church, we processed with the Bridegroom Icon. This is an Icon of Christ which we use as the cover to our Daily Lenten Journey. It normally depicts Christ holding a reed as a staff to remind us that…

Today is Palm Sunday, the day on which the Church recalls the Triumphant Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem as King. That day, just over two thousand years ago was a great day in the life of God’s people, but it was a day that has been greatly misunderstood. That day, great crowds welcomed the entrance…

Palm Sunday is the commemoration of the Entrance of Christ as the King of Kings into Jerusalem just six days before His Passion. Huge crowds declared Him as their King crying out, “Glory to God in the Highest. Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord.” Our King in coming for us,…