On this feast of the Saints Peter and Paul, the Northeast American Diocese is excited to announce that Holy Week 2024 Services from Lazarus Saturday to the Great Sunday of the Resurrection will take place at the Holy Transfiguration Retreat Center in Dalton, PA from March 23-31, 2024. The chief celebrant will be His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos, Metropolitan of the Northeast American Diocese. Registration details for the clergy and faithful will be released soon. Blessed Feast!
Make sure to check out the reflections of some participants from Holy Week 2023 and the pictures of the #amazing #fireworks and #sparklers that we had to celebrate the #resurrection of Christ!
"Holy Week is not a time that we merely remember the saving passion of our Lord but that we are called to be partakers of a living experience. Holy Week helps us learn to lay aside earthly cares and to prefer eternal things. For example, deflecting worldly praise and honor and preferring a humble disposition, which is an imitation of Christ, revealed to us in the person of Christ through Holy Week. Holy Week reveals to us the extreme humility of Christ through His self-sacrificing love. The Church gives us Holy Week to remind us of the humble disposition and love of Christ that we are called to imitate. Furthermore, our suffering is an opportunity to turn to God and we must immediately turn to God in times of difficult emotions. This allows us to transform our experiences into a spiritual state since we invite Christ into our experience. We must turn to God, even when we are tempted not to, and this dialogue can help to heal us. It is not enough to merely check the box when it comes to fulfilling spiritual practices such as prayers and fasting but we must reflect on what is happening in our hearts." -Dr Christopher Veniamin (Excerpt from Holy Week 2023 Discussion at HTRC).
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