By Fr. Maximos Constas
By the grace of God, we have completed the Fast, and have now set our foot on the bridge leading from Great Lent to Holy Week.
Holy Week is called “Holy and Great Week,” or simply “Great Week” (Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς), and is “great,” in the words of St. John Chrysostom, because “great and ineffable mysteries take place during this week.”
This is a time when the whole Church gathers together, when the whole Church celebrates the passion and resurrection of the Lord – and the overture, as it were, the prologue to the week, consists of two feasts: the Raising of Lazarus and Palm Sunday.
