Christian holidays from the first of April. Calendar of church holidays in April
Easter is a celebration of celebrations. The Church in sacred hymns calls Easter great, opening the doors of paradise to us, Holy Week, the bright Resurrection of Christ, calls for its glorification of the earth and heaven, the visible and invisible world, for "Christ is risen, eternal joy."
The Paschal service is celebrated especially solemnly both on the first day of Pascha and throughout Bright Week.
Holy Christ's Resurrection. Easter. Sretensky Monastery. Easter Matins, Liturgy. Choir of the Sretensky Monastery. Posted in 2010
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From the evening (on Holy Saturday) the Acts of the Holy Apostles are read in the church, containing immutable evidence of the Resurrection of Christ, after which follows midnight office with the canon of Holy Saturday. After the 9th song, while singing (for a katavasia) irmos: Don't cry for me, Mother there is an incense around the Holy Shroud, then the priest raises it on his head and takes it (with the face to the east) into the altar through the royal doors, which are immediately closed. The Holy Shroud rests on the throne and stays there until Easter is given away - in remembrance of the fact that Christ the Savior, after His Resurrection, stayed on earth for 40 days.
Since the time of the apostles, the Church has celebrated the Paschal service at night. Like ancient Israel, which was awake on the night of its deliverance from Egyptian slavery, so the new Israel - Christian church- stays awake "on the sacred and saving night" of the bright Resurrection of Christ - the herald of the luminous day of spiritual renewal and liberation from slavery to sin and the devil.
The beginning of Paschal Matins is preceded by a solemn procession around the temple (while singing the stichera) to meet Christ outside it, like the myrrh-bearing women who met the risen Lord outside Jerusalem.
In the narthex with the closed doors of the temple, the Easter service begins. matins exclamation Glory to the Saints and singing with according to the Paschal rite.
When singing after glory, and now the second half of the troparion of Pascha ( And giving life to those in the tombs) church doors open, the clergy and worshipers enter the temple.
After the great litany is sung , compiled by St. John of Damascus (8th century). Initial words the irmos of each song are sung in the altar, and the choir continues the following words of the irmos. Each song ends with the repetition of the irmos and the singing of the troparion three times.
On each song of the canon, incense is performed. Causing the people, the priest greets those praying with the words: "Christ is Risen!" The believers answer: “Truly He is risen!” and, looking at the Cross in the hand of the priest, they overshadow themselves with the sign of the cross. For each song there is a small litany.
After the 3rd song, the ipakoi is sung
According to the 6th song - kontakion, and ikos:, then - (three times) and (three times).
According to the 9th song - exapostilary (three times).
After singing the laudatory stichera and Let God rise the primate reads the catechumen of St. John Chrysostom: in which, on the basis of the parable of Christ the Savior about those who worked in the vineyard (Matt. 20:1-16), everyone is called to enjoy the Easter celebration and enter into the joy of the risen Lord, after which the troparion of St. John Chrysostom: (the only hymn of the saints in the Pascha service).
are sung both on the first day of Easter and throughout Bright Week. Easter clock This is a very special kind of watch. They do not consist of ordinary psalms, but of Paschal hymns, the same for each hour, and are sung.
Is being done liturgy St. John Chrysostom
The liturgy on the first day of Pascha is "wounded, labor for the sake of vigil."
Easter antiphons (,) are sung.
Input verse: In the churches bless God, the Lord from the fountains of Israel.
Instead of the Trisagion Elites are baptized in Christ....
The main feature of the Paschal liturgy is that the Gospel, the 1st conception from John, which tells about the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ ("In the beginning was the Word...") is read by the clergy on different languages, especially in the ancient ones: Hebrew, Greek and Latin, on which the inscription was made on the Cross of the Savior. Such a reading reminds us that the apostolic preaching has spread throughout the earth, among all peoples.
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involved Accept the body of Christ, taste the source of the immortal.
Instead of Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord, Videhom True Light, May our lips be filled, Be the name of the Lord and the 33rd psalm is sung.
According to the prayer behind the ambo, artos is consecrated - bread with the image of the Cross or the resurrection of Christ (). It symbolizes the invisible presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. Artos is worn during religious processions, throughout Bright Week it stands on a special table in front of the icon of Christ the Savior, to the right of the royal doors. On Friday evening, the artos is broken up and distributed to the worshipers on Bright Saturday after the Liturgy.
At the end of the Liturgy, the clergy and the people are christened. When kissing and greeting Christians from ancient times give each other red eggs. The egg is a symbol of life. Egg, dyed red paint, also reminds us that our life is renewed in the bowels of the Holy Sepulcher and this new life acquired by the Most Pure Blood of Christ the Savior. The custom of giving Easter eggs, according to ancient church tradition, owes its beginning to St. Mary Magdalene, who, having appeared before the emperor Tiberius, offered him a red egg with a greeting: "Christ is risen!"
The royal gates of the main altar and all side chapels are open throughout the entire Bright Week.
The evening is done vespers. Entrance with the Gospel, the great prokimen and the reading of the Gospel by the priest in the Royal Doors facing the people. The Primate celebrates Vespers in full dress.
April 2019 begins with the Annunciation Holy Mother of God dated 7th number April. This festival symbolizes the beginning of the atonement for human sins (as it was called in certain period time). On this day, the Virgin Mary received the good news that she had conceived and should give birth to the Son of God. Any work, whether physical or mental, is considered sinful on this day. All powers true christian should go to thank the Virgin Mary for helping Jesus Christ enter this world.
Lazarus Saturday
Saturday, which comes before Palm Sunday, is called Lazarus Saturday. In 2019, this holiday falls on 20 April. On this day, everyone and everyone remembers the miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus by Jesus Christ. Lazarus is a young man who was obliged to die in order to show the whole world how sinful he is. The horror of Lazareva's death eclipsed Jesus Christ, and he shed a tear. Because everyone is obliged to remember that every creature of God is doomed to eternal life, and only a human being with his sinful essence - to death. And so Lazarus was resurrected from his tomb-cave. He lived on for another three decades, preached Christianity in Cyprus.
Palm Sunday
Continues the series Orthodox holidays 21-th of April- Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem Palm Sunday. There was such a wonderful custom among the ancient Jews - to enter on horses or on donkeys, symbolizing the winner. On this holiday, all living people remember how Jesus Christ ascended to Jerusalem as the winner of everything sinful and criminal. And Jesus was free in his suffering, delivering the earth from the kingdom of filth.
Easter (Holy Resurrection of Christ)
That same religious holiday, when every old woman shouts to another across the street “Christ is Risen!”, and she answers her “Truly Risen”, falls on 28 -th of April.
This event is considered the greatest holiday for every Christian person. After the third day of his death, the Lord resurrected, and his body succumbed to miraculous changes, according to the Holy Scriptures.
On this day, according to tradition, they bake Easter cakes and go to consecrate eggs. In the same day Great Lent comes to an end.
Bright Easter week
The continuous Bright Easter Week falls in the year 2019 on the 28th -th of April. In the first week after the Easter holiday, on Wednesdays and Fridays, fasting is canceled and Easter clock instead of morning and evening prayers.
Every day, after liturgical songs, a festive procession is performed and all the bells are rung, expressing joy.
The whole week personifies an hour of rejoicing that Jesus Christ rose once upon a time and at the same time a completely eternal period of time, which should remind you that once in the Kingdom God's time will no longer exist.
Great Tuesday of Holy Week.
Saint Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia.
Great Lent continues.
Great Wednesday of Passion Week.
Saint John of the Ladder, hegumen of Sinai.
Great Lent continues.
Maundy Thursday (Maundy Thursday).
Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Kyiv, Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Great Lent continues.
The week before Easter for Orthodox Christians comes Great (Clean) Thursday. During worship on this day, one of the most important gospel events: last supper, on which Jesus Christ washed the feet of his disciples, thus showing an example of brotherly love and humility. According to the Gospel, at the Last Supper, Jesus Christ established the rite of the Eucharist - Holy Communion. About traditions clean thursday we wrote earlier. From Clean Thursday, preparations for Easter begin.
Good Friday (Good Friday).
Remembrance of the Holy Saviors of the Passion of the Lord.
Saint Euthymius, Archimadrid of Suzdal, miracle worker.
Great Lent continues.
Great Saturday.
Saint Titus the Wonderworker.
Icons Mother of God"Key of Understanding".
Great Lent continues.
Easter - Bright Resurrection of Christ.
End of Lent.
On this special day for all believers, having consecrated holiday baskets, families gather at a common table, realizing the sacredness of this day, they try Easter cake, delicious meals after Great Lent and remember the meanings laid down in this important holiday for all believers.
Monday of Bright Week.
Saint Joseph the Songwriter.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God "Gerontissa" and "Redeemer".
Tuesday of Bright Week.
Celebration of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God and the Hodegetria Shuiskaya Icon.
Transfer of the relics of St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.
Wednesday of Holy Week.
Day of Remembrance Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius, Bishop of Moravia.
Venerable Platonis of Syria.
120 Persian martyrs.
Celebration of the Kasperovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
Thursday of Holy Week.
Saint George the Confessor.
Byzantine Icon of the Mother of God.
Friday of Bright Week.
Icons of the Mother of God "Life-Giving Spring".
Saturday of Bright Week.
Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea.
Icon of the Mother of God "Caesarius".
Red hill.
Week 2 after Easter, Antipascha or Fomin's day.
Martyrs Terentius, Pompius, Africanus, Maximus, Zinon, Alexander, Theodore and 33 others.
Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum of Asia.
Week 2 after Easter.
Radonitsa, commemoration of the dead.
Murom Icon of the Mother of God.
Hieromartyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea.
Lent day.
Saint Martin the First, Confessor, Pope.
Vilna Icon of the Mother of God.
Apostles from the seventy Aristarchus, Puda and Trofim.
Lent day.
Martyrs Agapia, Irene and Chionia.
Ilyinsk-Chernigov and Tambov Icons of the Mother of God.
Week 3 after Pascha, holy myrrh-bearing women.
Reverend Zosima, hegumen of Solovetsky.
Icon of the Mother of God "Redeemer".
Week 5 of Great Lent. Voice 8th.
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Sunday troparion and kontakion of the 8th tone(see annex 1) Troparion of Saint Mary of Egypt, tone 8: In you, mother, you are known to be saved even in the image, / having accepted the cross, you followed Christ, / and the working ones taught you to despise the flesh, it passes away, / lie down about souls, things are immortal. / the same with the Angels Come on, Reverend Mary, your spirit. Kontakion of the Monk Mary of Egypt, tone 3: First full of all kinds of fornication, / Christ's bride has appeared today in repentance, / imitating Angelic life, / destroys the demons of the Cross with weapons. / This bride has appeared for the Kingdom, / glorious Mary.
Today we remember the memory of St. Mary of Egypt. Same amazing life. A young woman who has lived a life of sin goes into the wilderness. She did not prepare herself for a day, not a minute for this feat; she did not go through the tests of her abilities and through physical training, but simply decided one day to cross the Jordan and go into the wilderness, having nothing - no food supplies, no clothes. Mary spent there long years, being honored that her flesh changed, and she, as the elder Zosima testifies, crossed the Jordan as if on dry land. What kind of phenomenon is this - St. Mary of Egypt? It is quite obvious that similar people conquered themselves. They managed to master the most important art and comprehended the highest wisdom of complete control of oneself, one's faith, one's will, one's thought. They controlled their body. They subordinated the carnal elements to their will and their mind.
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April is a spring sunny month, during this period a real aroma of freshness appears in the air. In the calendar for the specified month, there is not a single public holiday. And here is the calendar church holidays April contains very important and significant for different religions dates. In Orthodoxy, a significant celebration is designated for April - this is a bright Easter. As you know, this event is fundamental to the Bible, because Easter means the sacred resurrection of Christ. It is from the date of Easter that the account of all other important dates Orthodoxy.
In Catholicism, many solemn events descend from Orthodoxy, the only difference between these religions is the dates of the meeting of important religious holidays. What church holidays in April 2017 are marked by the religious calendar?
Orthodox holidays in April
From the beginning of April, the Great and Strict Lent continues. This restriction is based in honor of the wanderings of Jesus in the wilderness, when he renounced human passions and desires as a sign of liberation from sins and mental anguish. According to the rules of Strict Lent, believers must also observe the strictest restrictions in nutrition, as well as in the conduct of earthly life. The main restriction concerns the usual rules of nutrition - Christians are forbidden to eat any food of animal origin. For the duration of the fast, other fundamentals must also be observed: lead a modest lifestyle, do not celebrate entertainment celebrations, read prayers regularly, do not swear, do not have sexual intercourse.
Great Lent ends with the advent of Easter. In April of this year, the great Orthodox celebration is scheduled for the 16th. What else Christian holidays in April 2017 matter to all believers?
Catholic holidays
All Catholic church holidays in April 2017 are included in the religious calendar. What significant dates are celebrated in the spring month by Catholics?
