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Among the ancient liturgical readings sung on Holy Wednesday is the episode of Christ in the Garden of Olives.
The full-page miniature shows, under a starry sky, this moment of extreme anguish and absolute solitude for Christ. His friends are asleep at the foot of the mountain, and in the distance, coming out of the city, we see the Sanhedrin guards with their staffs, led by Judas, advancing to arrest him.
The manuscript is a monumental Salzburg missal in five volumes, produced between 1478 and 1489 by Ulrich Schreier and Berthold Furtmeyr.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ms Clm 15710, Missale Salisburgensis, vol. 2, f° 89v, 38 × 28 cm
Holiness is your goal. Perfection in love is your goal. Don't stop at the means to holiness and idolize them. Don't take the means for the end, nor the end for the means. Do not make the means your goal and your purpose; do not use holiness as a means to other ends (Words of Saint Charbel, Hanna Skandar, p.82).Holiness is your goal. Perfection in love is your goal. Don't stop at the means to holiness and idolize them. Don't take the means for the end, nor the end for the means. Do not make the means your goal and your purpose; do not use holiness as a means to other ends (Words of Saint Charbel, Hanna Skandar, p.82).
This is Holy Week.
There are some very exciting moments ahead. From the anointing of the sick on Wednesday to the Lord's Supper on Thursday, from the burial on Friday to the raising of the tomb on Saturday and, finally, the night of the Resurrection!
These intense times help us to understand and experience all that Jesus has done for us, and all that He will always do for us.
These times make us understand that we must die to ourselves to be born in Jesus. Every year is like a new baptism.
During these times of prayer and whatever we plan to do up to Sunday, let's never lose sight of why we're doing it. They won't be performances to deliver or obligations to fulfill. Absolutely not!
Let's live this blessed time only out of true love for Jesus, to encounter Him even more intimately, to find and receive God's Holy Spirit within us!
May God's love guide us to His Resurrection!
Fraternally in Christ
+Nicolas
Bishop of the Celtic Orthodox Church in SwitzerlandBishop of the Celtic Orthodox Church in Switzerland
We recall that the Orthodox Church considers holy relics to be vessels of divine grace, and according to Orthodox patristic theology, we accord them respectful veneration.
St Gregory Palamas (Archbishop of Thessalonica) points out that just as Christ's divinity did not abandon his human body during his burial and three-day resurrection, the grace of the Holy Spirit does not abandon the bodies of the saints after their biological death, so as Orthodox we respectfully embrace the holy relics to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.
The existence of holy relics confirms the hope of the Resurrection and eternal life, the truth of the Gospel and the experiential experience of deification.
Statement by the monks of Mount Athos protesting against the Kiev government authorities for desecrating the relics of the Lavra in the Kiev caves.
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