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Follow Christ and the Church through each stage of Holy Week—from the Saturday of Lazarus to the Agape Vespers service—with this new full-color guide from the Department of Religious Education.

John Thomas’ intimate work documents the Sacred Holy Week services of the Orthodox Church. The journey climaxes into the most hopeful day of all Christianity – Easter commonly referred to as “Pascha”. Each day of Holy Week captures both the community’s prayerful participation and the spirituality of each service as experienced by the faithful worldwide.

This is the first complete HOLY WEEK-EASTER Book ever published. Original Greek text with the modern English Translation on the opposite page. All paragraphs are in similar places for both languages, making it easy to follow, no matter in which language the Services are held.

Published by the Church of Greece (Apostoliki Diakonia) - The Old Testament Preserving the order and content according to the Septuagint.

Published by the Church of Greece (Apostoliki Diakonia) - The New Testament According to the translation approved by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Arranged in brief pericopes of text with commentary following, Shepherding the Flock presents a traditional Orthodox interpretation of the scriptures along with historical, linguistic, and contextual details that bring Paul's epistles to life for the contemporary reader.

Lynette Katherine Hoppe's life and death touched hundreds, if not thousands of lives as she served as a missionary in Albania, tragically succumbing to cancer in 2006. In "Lynette's Hope: The Witness of Lynette Katherine Hoppe's Life and Death," close family friend and fellow OCMC missionary Fr. Luke Veronis retells the story of her life, and then lets her writing speak for itself.

Surprised by Christ combines an engrossing memoir of one man's life in historic situations—from the Six-Day War to the Jesus Movement in Berkeley-—with a deeply felt examination of the distinctives of Orthodox theology that make the Orthodox Church the true home not only for Christian Jews, but for all who seek to know God as fully as He may be known.

In "Creation and the Patriarchal Histories: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Genesis," Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon shows clearly how the proper understanding of Creation and the Fall informs all of Christian doctrine, and how the narratives of the patriarchs from Noah to Joseph pave the way for the salvation history that continues in Exodus.

One-volume reprint of the two-volume edition of 1935. Introduction in Modern Greek, Latin, German and English. Key to sigla. GBS, Stuttgart, 1979. Cloth, 19 x 12.5 cm, lxix, 1184, 941 p.