O Nymphios erhetae en to meso is niktos
The Orthros service, otherwise known as the Bridegroom
Service is conducted on Palm Sunday, and Good Monday and Tuesday nights. The themes throughout these services are
based chiefly on our Lord Jesus’ earthly life.
These first three days constitute a single liturgy unit. They have the same system and cycle of daily
prayer.
The days are called Good Monday etc according to the Western Church and Holy Monday etc according to the Orthodox Church. In Greece, we call the days Great Monday etc.
Holy Monday is dedicated to two events, the life of Joseph.
Son of Patriarch Jacob, who was sold as a slave in Egypt, the adventures of
whom reflect the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and his sufferings. It is also dedicated to the tale of the
fruitless fig tree that Christ dried because the fig tree symbolizes the
soul of every human who lacks virtue.
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