Bright Week!!!

Orthodox Christians around the world continue to witness and live this magnificent celebration of Bright Week or Easter Week (for Western/Latin Rite Orthodoxy).

Icon of the Resurrection of The Lord

 According to Wikipedia:  

The entire week following Pascha is to be set aside by Orthodox Christians for the celebration of the Resurrection. According to the 66th canon of the Council in Trullo:
"from the holy day of the Resurrection of Christ our God until New Sunday (i.e. Thomas Sunday) for a whole week the faithful in the holy churches should continually be repeating psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, rejoicing and celebrating Christ, and attending to the reading of the Divine Scriptures and delighting in the Holy Mysteries. For in this way shall we be exalted with Christ; raised up together with Him. For this reason on the aforesaid days that by no means there be any horse races or any other public spectacle".^[1]

This is a celebration, but a holy one. And so, even "little partying" isn't allowed:

In Imperial Russia, the taverns used to be closed during Bright Week, and no alcoholic beverages were sold.^[2]

HAPPY BRIGHT WEEK!!!!




Infos are from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Week


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