By Metropolitan Chrysostomos III of Mani
Compunctious, filled with sacred awe, stands before us the Holy and Great Week. It is Great because of the great events which it so vividly and movingly brings to our remembrance: Jesus Christ, who comes to His voluntary Passion. And this is for our salvation from sin.
The inspired hymnography of the Church begins with the beautiful troparion: “Behold, the Bridegroom comes in the middle of the night, and blessed is the servant whom He shall find watching; and unworthy again is he whom He shall find slothful…”
Christ, the Bridegroom of the Church and of our soul, comes, and blessed is he who keeps watch and receives Him. But unworthy is the one who is slothful and far from Him, spiritually asleep.
Let us, therefore, prepare ourselves to receive the Bridegroom within our souls.
Let us journey together with the Lord to Jerusalem, and from there to Golgotha.
The road is difficult, yet honorable.
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
