"O sun tremble, O earth groan and o shaking one cry out...

 Holy Thursday evening...

"O sun tremble, O earth groan and o shaking one cry out...

Unshakable Lord, glory to you!"

There is no man without a cross!

Some with a large cross and some with a small cross...

Some with a heavy cross and some with a lighter one...

Some carry it without a care...

Some secretly weep!!!

Some sometimes get tired on the road and rest...

Some carry it on their shoulders...

Some on their backs...

And others hug it...Tightly!!!

Almost romantically...

And some others drag their cross...

Anyway, everyone carries something!

Everyone has something!

The point is not to give up!!!

The point is not to throw down your cross!

May the end find you, the "passing" and your hands still hold the cross, The cross that has been given to you...

That's the point!

And if sometimes you reach the "amen", raise your eyes high...

Great Cross, Great Resurrection of our Inexhaustible Lord!

"Today we will not only remember, but we will be present at the Passion of Christ.

We will be part of the crowd that will surround Christ, the Disciples and the Theotokos.

As we listen to the readings, as we follow the Prayers of the Church, as the images of the Passion follow one another before our eyes, let us ask ourselves the question:

Among this crowd, where am I, who am I?

A Pharisee?

A scribe?

A traitor?

A coward?

Who?"

Metropolitan of Sourozh Anthony Bloom.