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April 14, 2017

Holy and Great Saturday Resource Page


On Holy and Great Saturday, we celebrate the Burial of the Divine Body of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, and His descent into Hades, through which our race was recalled from corruption, and was transplanted to eternal life.

Verses

In vain you watchmen guard the tomb,
No grave can contain the Source of Life.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Juxtaposing the Birth and Rebirth of Christ (St. Epiphanios of Salamis) 
 
 
How Christ Buries Himself In Us In Order To Raise Us (St. Symeon the New Theologian) 
 
Christ's Divine Strategy in Defeating the Devil (St. Gregory Palamas) 
 
Great Saturday - Godly Sorrow Precedes Heavenly Joy
 
 
Reflection for Holy and Great Saturday (St. Theophan the Recluse)
 
The Lord In Hades 
 
Homily on Holy and Great Saturday (St. John of Kronstadt) 
  
Homily Spoken Before the Holy Shroud of Great Saturday (St. Luke of Simferopol)
 
The Descent of Christ Into Hades (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)  
 
Homily on Holy Saturday: At Last Death Has Been Trampled (Archimandrite Kirill Pavlov)
  
The Mystery of the Tomb of Christ (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
 
Great and Holy Saturday: The Forgotten Feast  
 
On Leaving Church Early On Pascha After "Christ is Risen!"  
 
The Liturgical Theme of Holy Saturday 
 
Holy Saturday in Fourth Century Jerusalem According to Nun Egeria 
 
Who Wrote the Lamentations of Holy Saturday? 
 
A Lamentation of the Lamentations 
 
One of the Most Beloved and Most Beautiful Hymns of Holy Week That is Rarely Chanted 
 
Ezekiel's Prophecy of the Resurrection (Metr. Hietrotheos of Nafpaktos)
 
Jesus In Hades and the Sign of Jonah 
 
Prophet Jonah Resource Page  
 
"Lift Up Your Gates": A Powerful Paschal Custom
   
Holy Light of Jerusalem Resource Page 
 
A Prayer Before the All-Holy Sepulchre 
 
Akathist to the Life-Bearing Tomb of Christ 
 
The Holy Sepulcher, a 3D Journey Back in Time  
 
Documentary: The Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre (Greek) 
 
The Miraculous Wax Holy Seal of the Holy Sepulchre  
 
One Door and No Fire Exit at Holy Sepulchre Church 
 
Why the Shroud of Turin is Fake 
 
Why the Shroud of Turin is a Forgery 
 
Holy Saturday Morning In Kerkyra (Corfu)



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