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Showing posts with label Lent 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lent 2025. Show all posts
19 April 2025

The Epitaphios processions
make their way through the
streets of Rethymnon on
Great Friday or Good Friday

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Good Friday evening 2025 in Rethymnon, Part 1: the procession of the Epitaphios leaves the Cathedral (Patrick Comerford, 2025) Good Friday...

Daily prayer in Lent 2025:
46, Saturday 19 April 2025,
Easter Eve

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The Deposition of Christ from the Cross by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford We ...
18 April 2025

A solemn commemoration
of Great and Good Friday in
the cathedral in Rethymnon on
the most solemn day in Crete

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People queue to venerate the Epitaphios in the cathedral in Rethymnon this afternoon (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2025) Patrick Comerfo...

Daily prayer in Lent 2025:
45, Friday 18 April 2025,
Great and Good Friday

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A Byzantine-style crucifix by Αλεξανδρα Καουκι , icon writer in Rethymnon, Crete Patrick Comerford We are at the climax of Holy Week, th...
17 April 2025

Listening to the poetry of
Elytis and the songs of
Theodorakis on the road
from Iraklion to Rethymnon

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‘But where did you wander / All day long in the hard reverie of stone and sea?’ (Odysseas Elytis, Marina on the Rocks) … rocks and the sea a...

Daily prayer in Lent 2025:
44, Thursday 17 April 2025,
Maundy Thursday

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An icon depicting the Last Supper or Mystical Supper seen in a shop on Ethnikis Antistaseos street in Rethymnon in Crete (Photograph: Patric...
16 April 2025

Daily prayer in Lent 2025:
43, Wednesday 16 April 2025,
Wednesday of Holy Week (‘Spy Wednesday’)

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‘This Wednesday dazzles us with gift and newness and possibility’ … sunset seen this week on the Grand Union Canal in Cosgrove, Northamptons...