“All of the wood. O Arimathea. He buries you in the grave.”
In a climate of religious ecstasy and emotion, the operation of decapitation at the Sanctuary of Panachrantos in Mykonos Town
The moment of Apostasy is perhaps one of the highlights of Christianity. Jesus after his martyrdom on the Cross……
……..is buried to return victorious after three days. At the time of the Apostasy everything stopped so that the faithful could worship the Body of Christ.
The bells in the churches of Mykonos rang mournfully., Hundreds of believers attended today in the Orthodox Churches of the Island the Sequence of the Great Hours and the representation of the Apostasy – of the descent of the body of Jesus from the Cross to the Epitaph,
“Today it hangs on wood…”
"You folded your palms and joined them before you stretched"
Moments of emotion during decapitation, a ceremony attended by the pious Mykonians participating in the drama of the Godman was found in the Holy Temple of Panachrantos to worship the dead body of Jesus and pray for the Resurrection.
” The blessed Joseph, of wood,
of all, your colorless body”
Immediately after the glorification of the verses around one in the afternoon, the First Elder Fr. Vassilios Tzanidakis,…..
” Ὄτε κατναλθες πρός τόν θάνατον, ἡ ζωή ἡ ἀθάνατος
τότε τόν ἄδην ἐνέκρωσας, the lightning of the Godhead… “
” When from the wood to the dead, ο Αριμαθαίας καθείλε, the life of all, myrrh and shroud in Christ buried, and it was urgent, heart, and lips, body the inviolable, your case, but shrinking I fear, rejoice you. Glory, your consent Philanthropist”.
…. as another Joseph of Arimathea, descended the Body of Jesus from the Cross and with the help of the faithful wrapped it in a white sheet "purely shroud" and …
… procession leader came out of the temple and representing the path to Golgotha….
…with the Crucified Jesus and after his entry he deposited the canopy of the flower-decorated Epitaph for the worship of the faithful. With him the Psalms and the faithful.
Late at night the procession of the epitaph took place.
However, despite the sadness of today, enclosed in it the joyful message of the Resurrection, the greatest message of Christianity.
Happy Easter!!!
Mykonos Ticker – Diefxon
Images from the Apostasy Sequence