The Darkness Shall Not Prevail (Το σκοταδι δεν θα επικρατησει) (†) Bishop Augustinos Kantiotes
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(Το σκοταδι δεν θα επικρατησει)
(†) Bishop Augustinos Kantiotes
Palm Sunday Evening
13 April 2025
Tonight, my beloved, Great or Holy Week begins, according to the typicon of our holy Church. Why is it called Great? Its
duration is no different from the other weeks of the year. It is called Great because during this week, humanity remembers the thrice-great
events of the life of Christ, which occurred on the shell of this earth.
by, the centuries drift away. And while most things that occur don’t make much of an impression on us, there are, however, some times in our personal or family life, or in events concerning our nation, that move us. We all have such hours – milestones that leave a mark on us.
pwrecked and he was miraculously saved, he wrote in his diary: ‘The time that I was in the ocean seemed like a century to me!’ Time acquires significance and dimension by the events that occur within it.
iversal clock, strike its greatest hours? Exactly during this week! Because during this week, unrepeatable events occurred, whose beams and impact influence —and will continue to influence— the world throughout the ages. The pinnacle was when Christ, step by step, painstakingly ascended the degrees of martyrdom and reached Golgotha. Oh Christ, enlighten us sinners to be able to comprehend the greatness of Your Sacrifice!
od transfusion is given to someone seriously ill —offered by a donor— and the person is saved. In a similar way Christ also, that great Donor, gave His untainted, deified blood to the veins of humanity, so that our sins could be forgven and we could have etemal life.
In tonight’s hymns the Church tells us of righteous Joseph, who was furthermore a smail prefiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. It says that Joseph, during a famine, became a wheat-giver, i.e. he provided people with wheat and saved them from hunger. But Christ wasn’t simply a wheat-giver. Beyond bread, beyond the manna which He rained down in the desert, beyond the material goods which He disperses and distributes to the world, Christ gave us —Oh my God, if only we could truly live this— He offered His All-holy body, in order to vanquish death………….
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