Easter/Pascha

Orthodox Easter Sunday (2006) is on April the 23rd

A nice page concerning Easter is Athanati's

Mosaic icon showing the "Virgin - the Visitation." The Virgin is shown in protome in a gold field, holding the Child in her right arm. One of the most important of the large mosaic icons. Dated in the 13th-14th century. To be found in The Byzantine Museum in Athens 

Alphabetically listed (under title), below are some of the 900 or so titles that we stock on Orthodox Christianity. You may search out theological titles by clicking on this button: Alternatively, feel free to browse these lists:

Below are a few books which are specific to this great celebration. "Christos Anesti", whichever Christian faith you are. SJ

SCHMEMANN Alexander:   CHURCH YEAR. VOL. 2 CELEBRATION OF FAITH ; ORTH. In this volume Fr. Schmemann examines first the phenomenon of celebration and then its expression in the Orthodox Christian Church year, focusing especially on the Christmas and Easter cycles paper.pp. 162  

KOKKINOU Margoula and KOFINAS Georgia: FESTIVE FAST. Greek Meatless Cooking in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition., ; ORTH. An English translation of a popular Greek fasting cookbook. Includes an introduction explaining which days are Fast days in the Orthodox tradition together with a sermon of St. John Chrysostom on fasting. spiral hardback. 352 pages.  

CALIVAS Alkiviadis C: GREAT WEEK AND PASCHA IN THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ; ORTH. Fr.Calivas traces the development of the liturgical celebration of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. Fr. Calivas elegantly describes the theological themes for each day, clarifies the liturgical practices, and provides rubrics for their proper celebration. Through the text, the reader can find answers to many questions about Great Week as well as insights into meaningful participation in each of the services. According to the author, "Everything converges on the person of Jesus Christ, who was betrayed, crucified and buried, and who rose on; the third day. These events are the keystones to the structure of Great Week. Through them we embrace the mystery of our salvation. paper pp.145pp. 

PAPADEAS Father George. : GREEK ORTHODOX HOLY WEEK AND EASTER SERVICES ; ORTH. New and revised with contemporary English translation. All services from Palm Sunday to Pascha in English and Greek. hardback. 500 pages. Parallel text and absolutely wonderful. SJ 

LENTEN COOKBOOK FOR ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS ; ORTH. This cookbook has been the result of a dream of many of our parishioners(St. Nectarios Orthodox Church) to have an Orthodox Cookbook for the Lenten periods of our Church.many of our faithful are converts who have not grown up in an orthodox environment where lentils, beans and seafood and other "fast-foods" were essential parts of their diets. Often to a new convert, especially a mother, the problem of "what do you eat?" assumes gigantic proportions during the Great Lent or on Wednesdays and Fridays. To encourage and revitalise fasting within our orthodox household, our parishioners have prepared this cookbook with the generous contributions of many throughout the world whose help and encouragement we gratefully acknowledge. We pray that along with your physical fast you also will begin to understand the importance of spiritual fasting. paperback. 

HOPPO Thomas:    LENTEN SPRING ; ORTH. These forty meditations on Great Lent with a clarity, vitality and freshness that is often missing in Lenten literature. Based on liturgical, scriptural and patristic texts, they are useful for all Christians who undertake the yearly journey of the Lord's Pascha. paper. 229 pp.  

MOTHER MARY AND ARCHIMANDRITE KALLISTOS WARE. Translators: LENTEN TRIODION. translated from the original Greek ; ORTH. Companion volume to the Festal Menaion this volume contains the full variable texts for the ten Sundays before Pascha, the full texts for the First week of Lent and Holy Week, together with certain other texts, during the season of the Fast, has an excellent introduction on the meaning and purpose of fasting. hardback. 699 pages. 

MOTHER MARY AND ARCHIMANDRITE KALLISTOS WARE. Translators.: THE LENTEN TRIODION. Supplementary Texts. ; orth. translated from the original Greek. The present volume forms a supplement to the LENTEN TRIODION. Trans. by Mother Mary and Archmandrite Kallistos Ware and published by Faber and Faber in 1978. It contains all the offices to be found in the Greek Triodion, but omitted for reasons of space from the English translation published in 1978. paper. 338 pp  

HOPKO Thomas:    WINTER PASCHA ; ORTH. Meditations for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, drawings on biblical readings, liturgical hymns, and verses of the season to illuminqte the way for believes to follow the Church's days of preparation and celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ. paper. An interesting look at the comparative values of "Christmas" and "Easter" festivals . pp. 197