Holy and Great Monday Resource Page

On Holy and Great Monday, we commemorate the blessed Joseph the All-Comely and the fig tree cursed and withered by the Lord.

Verses for Joseph the All-Comely

The chaste Joseph proved to be a just ruler
And a provider of corn; O abundance of good things.

Verses for the Withered Fig Tree

Christ likeneth the synagogue of the Hebrews
To a fig tree devoid of spiritual fruits and
Withereth it with a curse; let us avoid its fate.

 

Synaxarion for Holy and Great Monday 

 

Holy and Great Monday: Scripture Readings 

 

Holy Monday 

 

Holy and Great Monday (Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos) 

 

Journey Through Holy Week: Holy and Great Monday

 

Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Fourth Century Jerusalem According to Nun Egeria

 

Reflection for Holy and Great Monday (St. Theophan the Recluse) 

 

Escaping the Judgment of the Fig Tree (St. Theophan the Recluse)

 

Homily on Great Monday (St. John of Kronstadt)

A Lesson for the Soul on Holy Monday: Be Fruitful (Archimandrite Athanasios Mitilinaios)

 

An Interpretation of the Hymnography of Matins on Holy Monday 

 

The Lord Comes To His Voluntary Passion 

 

The Humble and Suffering Bridegroom of the Church 

 

The Bridegroom of our Church 

 

The Bridegroom Comes as a Mad Lover to Redeem His Creation 

 

Behold the Bridegroom Comes in the Middle of the Night (Great Monday)

 

On Spiritual Love (St. Theoleptos of Philadelphia)

 

Christ the Bridegroom and the Demonic Monster

 

"The Bridal Chamber of Your Soul" (St. Ephraim of Katounakia)

 

Behold, the Bridegroom is Coming - Ιδού, ο Νυμφίος έρχεται  

Holy Monday - Freedom That Alters 

 

"Bring More Evils Upon Them, O Lord" 

 

"Israel Does Not Know Me..."

 

 

On the Cursing of the Fig Tree (St. John Chrysostom) 

 

The Meaning of the Withered Fig Tree of the Gospel (St. Maximus the Confessor)

 

Life is Short - The Lord is Waiting for Your Repentance (A Homily of St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

A Fruitful or a Fruitless Holy Week? 

 

Why Did Christ Curse the Fig Tree? 

 

Sermon on Joseph the Most Virtuous (St. Ephraim the Syrian) 

 

Joseph the Patriarch in the Homilies of John Chrysostom

 

Who Sold Joseph? (Abba John the Dwarf)  

 

A Homily on Joseph, the Chaste and Innocent 

 

Joseph the All-Comely as a Prefiguration of the Lord and as a Model for Us

The Inner Freedom and Purity of Life of Joseph the All-Comely 

 

The Joseph Story: Narrative, Theology and the Christian Hope 

 

Joseph and Jesus Compared 

 

The Garment of Adam and the Garment of Joseph 

 

Who Sold Joseph Into Slavery? 

 

The One Who Wrongs Us Is Our Benefactor (St. Paisios the Athonite) 

 

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