The Early Fathers of the Church have arranged a divine calendar for the year by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and on the bases of the mind of God revealed in the books of the Scripture(Exodus 12:2). The purpose of this calendar is that the people of God would be preoccupied throughout the whole year with the Kingdom of heaven.
The Annunciation is considered to be the crown of feasts for it is the initiation of our salvation through incarnation, which continued with the Nativity of the Messiah and was completed by His death on the Cross and Resurrection.
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The Passion Week starts on Palm Sunday and it ends on Good Friday.
Throughout the whole week, Jesus moved between two places; namely, the temple where He taught and Bethany where He rested.
He consistently has specific plans to fulfill and thus is invariably searching for a person or group that can bring such plans to fruition.
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The Holy Lent, as the early fathers describe it, is the spring of the divine calendar; the season...
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Reading: Luke 2: 25 – 38 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this...
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The Church did not celebrate the Nativity of Christ until the fourth century. Then, in the fourth century, the date of this feast was determined and it started to be celebrated.
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Introduction: After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to His disciples and spoke with them several...
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