THE APODOSIS OF PASCHA AT THE PATRIARCHATE

On Wednesday, May 30 / June 12, 2024, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Apodosis of Easter, i.e., the completion of forty days of the Easter period since the day of the Resurrection. Hence, the Church repeats the Resurrection Service as on Easter day without the Biblical Readings.

On this joyous feast, the Resurrection Service, that is, the Resurrection Canon of Saint John of Damascus, was chanted in the Patriarchal and Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, in the presence of H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and the Holy Sepulchre Fathers.

Subsequently, according to the ethos of the Brotherhood, His Beatitude and the Holy Fathers went through the steps of the Holy Church of Saint James the Brother of God and venerated the Holy Sepulchre, while the Divine Liturgy was being celebrated in the Catholicon of the Church of the Resurrection, presided over by the Most Reverend Archbishop Dorotheos of Avila and Holy Sepulchre Hieromonks and deacons, with the attendance of local believers and pilgrims.

Afterwards, the Episcopal Entourage went up to the Patriarchates and in joy paid their respects to His Beatitude.

From the General Secretariat