Sunday of Orthodoxy 2024: When are we celebrating?

On the next Sunday (24 March) our Church celebrates it as the first Sunday of the Great Forty-First Islands, which we count 42 days before Orthodox Easter. Christianity honors the restoration of images by Empress Theodora in 842 AD, which marked the end of Iconochia, the religious and political controversy that divided the inhabitants of the Byzantine Empire into Iconoclasts (or Iconoclasts) and Iconoclasts (or Iconophiles and Iconodolus). In Constantinople and in the magnificent church of Saint Sophia, the restoration of sacred icons was celebrated in a festive climate, followed by a procession of processions. At the same time, the iconoclasts were cursed, the heretics collected and all the cursed by the Ecumenical Councils. In the end all the “athletes” of godly devotion and Orthodox Faith were also mentioned. In fact, during the wandering of sacred images within the sacred temples, believers tend to keep images of their homes with them. More specifically, the Oriology (functional book of the church) states: “For over a hundred years the Church has been disrupted by persecutions from illustrious iconoclasts. First was Emperor Leo Isaurus and last was Theophilus, the man of Saint Theodora, who, after the death of her husband, took over power and consolidated Orthodoxy with Patriarch Methodius. Queen Theodora publicly declared that we embrace the images, not worshiping, nor as Gods, but as images of archetypes. On the first Sunday of the fasts in the year 842, Theodora along with the son of Emperor Michael, deserted and raised the holy images together with the clergy and the people. Since then we have celebrated each year the memory of this event because it was definitively determined that we do not worship the Images, but we honor and glorify all the Saints who depict and worship only God in Triad. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and no one else whether Saint or Angel”. During the Mass a passage is read from the Hebrew letter (k:24-26, and 32-40), where the games of the Holy Men of the Old Testament are exhibited for the sake of faith, as well as a passage from the Gospel of John (John. a’ 44–52), where the call of Philip and Nathanael that confessed to Jesus is pictured. Christ, as the son of God, “You are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel.” The rendering of the passage of the Gospel in the new Greek is as follows: 44 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. Then he finds Philip and says, “Come with me.” 45 Philip came from Bethsaida, the homeland of Andrew and Peter. 46 Philip finds Nathanael and says unto him, “The one that Moses foretold in the law and the prophets, we found him—is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth”. 47 “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him. “Come and see for yourself,” Philip says. 48 Jesus saw Nathanael come near, and saith of him, “Here is a truly Israelite, without deceit inside him”. 49 “Where do you know me?” Nathanael asks him. And Jesus replied to him: “Before Philip told you to come, I saw you sitting under the fig tree.” 50 Then Nathanael said unto him, Master, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel. 51 And Jesus answered him, Because I told thee that I saw thee under the fig tree, is that why thou believeth in me? You will see bigger things than these.” 52 And he added, “I tell you the truth, from now on ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God come up and go down around the Son of Man.” In addition, the Sunday of Orthodoxy is included in the Sundays that believers observe the strict fasting of the Great Lent, which is completed after Easter Awakeness and the Celebratory Mass of the Lord’s Resurrection, early Easter Sunday morning. Finally, it is recalled that this year the Sunday of Orthodoxy will be celebrated in the Catholic of the Holy Monastery of Asoma Petraki, instead of the Metropolitan Church of Athens, following a decision of the Standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, chaired by Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Mr. The Metropolitans of Nicopolis and Prevezis Chrysostomos, Ierissos, Mount Athos and Ardamerios Theocles and Maronia and Komotini Panteleimons will be consecrated at the feast of the day, while the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Akarnania Damaskinos will announce the day.