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Pasen 2008 | Stille Zaterdag

Deze week is het in de Orthodoxe Kerk de Goede Week
Op Paaszaterdag half twaalf ‘s avonds vangt de Paasnachtdienst in alle rust aan met het zachtjes zingen van de canon van Stille Zaterdag, waarvan de laatste negende ode luidt: “Ween niet over Mij o Moeder, nu gij in het graf ziet Uw Zoon Die gij in uw schoot, zonder smet ontvangen hebt. Want ik sta op, en verheerlijk Mij, om als God zonder einde allen in heerlijkheid te verhogen, die u met geloof en liefde steeds verheerlijken“. Na het zingen van deze negende ode wordt in stilte en zonder enig ceremonieel de platsjenitsa uit het midden van de kerk naar het altaar gebracht, waarop het de hele paastijd zal liggen en waarop dan ook de Liturgie wordt gevierd. De platsjenitsa is een grote liggende icoon van de graflegging, vaak prachtig versierd met geborduurde doeken rondom. Deze platsjenitsa heeft vanaf Goede Vrijdag midden in de kerk gelegen als het graf van Christus. Alle diensten zijn ook rond de platsjenitsa gevierd. En alle gelovigen leggen er gedurende deze dagen bloemen op zoals bij het graf van een geliefde. Met deze bloemen wordt dan met Pasen de kerk versierd.
 
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Troparion – Tone 2
 
When You did descend to death, O Life Immortal,
You did slay hell with the splendor of Your Godhead,
And when from the depths You did raise the dead,
All the Powers of Heaven cried out,
O Giver of Life, Christ our God, glory to You!
 
Kontakion – Tone 6
 
He who shut in the depths is beheld dead,
Wrapped in fine linen and spices.
The Immortal One is laid in a tomb as a mortal man.
The women have come to anoint Him with myrrh,
Weeping bitterly and crying:
“This is the most blessed Sabbath
On which Christ has fallen asleep to rise on the third day!”

Stille Zaterdag [ocafs.oca.org] | Stille Zaterdag [lent.goarch.org]

Pasen 2008 | Goede Vrijdag

Deze week is het in de Orthodoxe Kerk de Goede Week
On Great and Holy Friday Christ died on the Cross. He gave up His spirit with the words: “It is finished” (John 19:30). These words are better understood when rendered: “It is consummated.” He had accomplished the work for which His heavenly Father had sent Him into the world. He became a man in the fullest sense of the word. He accepted the baptism of repentance from John in the Jordan River. He assumed the whole human condition, experiencing all its alienation, agony, and suffering, concluding with the lowly death on the Cross. He perfectly fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”

Isaiah 53:12

Goede Vrijdag
Troparion – Tone 2
 
The Noble Joseph,
When he had taken down
Your most pure Body from the tree,
Wrapped it in fine linen,
And anointed it with spices,
And placed it in a new tomb.
 
Troparion – Tone 2
 
The angel came to the myrrh-bearing
women at the tomb and said:
Myrrh is fitting for the dead,
But Christ has shown Himself
a stranger to corruption.
 
Kontakion – Tone 8
 
Come, let us all sing the praises
of Him who was crucified for us,
For Mary said when she beheld Him upon the tree:
Though You do endure the cross,
You are my Son and my God!

Journey to PaschaJourney to Pascha
A Daily Guide Through Holy Week

The services of Holy Week transform us into eyewitnesses and direct participants in the awesome events of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ…

(Deze brochure is te downloaden op lent.goarch.org als PDF in twee formaten: 8.5×11 inch en 11×17 inch Format, beiden 13 MB groot)

Holy Friday [ goarch.org ]

Pasen 2008 | Grote Donderdag

Deze week is het in de Orthodoxe Kerk de Goede Week
Two events shape the liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday: the Last Supper of Christ with His disciples, and the betrayal of Judas. The meaning of both is in love. The Last Supper is the ultimate revelation of God’s redeeming love for man, of love as the very essence of salvation. And the betrayal of Judas reveals that sin, death and self-destruction are also due to love, but to deviated and distorted love, love directed at that which does not deserve love. Here is the mystery of this unique day, and its liturgy, where light and darkness, joy and sorrow are so strangely mixed, challenges us with the choice on which depends the eternal destiny of each one of us. “Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come… having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end…” (John 13:1). To understand the meaning of the Last Supper we must see it as the very end of the great movement of Divine Love which began with the creation of the world and is now to be consummated in the death and resurrection of Christ.
 
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Het Laatste Avondmaal
Troparion – Tone 6
 
Of Your Mystical Supper, O Son of God,
Accept me today as a communicant.
For I will not speak of Your mysteries
to Your enemies,
Neither like Judas will I give You a kiss,
But like the thief will I confess You.
Remember me, O Lord, in Your Kingdom!
 
Troparion – Tone 4
 
By Your precious blood,
You have redeemed us from the curse of the law.
By being nailed to the cross and pierced by a spear,
You have poured forth immortality for man.
O our Savior, glory to You!
 
Kontakion – Tone 8
 
Come, let us all sing the praises of Him
who was crucified for us,
For Mary said when she beheld Him upon the tree:
Though You do endure the cross,
You are my Son and my God!