Exhibition · 2 May — 10 June 2027
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!
Pascha · the night of light
One night in the year the whole of Greece stays awake. Follow it hour by hour, from the darkened church to the first light carried home.
Enter the night1 / 6 · Holy Saturday into Sunday
The Midnight Office
The church is full and quiet. The Epitaphios, the embroidered shroud of Christ, is carried into the altar. Every candle in every hand is still unlit.
2 / 6 · Holy Saturday into Sunday
Come, receive the light
All the lights go out. The priest comes from the altar with a single flame and sings: Come, receive the light. It passes from candle to candle until thousands of hands are lit.
3 / 6 · Holy Saturday into Sunday
Christ is risen!
Outside, under the sky, the Gospel of the Resurrection is read. At midnight the bells ring, fireworks go up over the town, and the first “Christ is risen!” is sung.
4 / 6 · Holy Saturday into Sunday
The Paschal Liturgy
Back inside, the service of Pascha continues. The sermon of Saint John Chrysostom invites everyone to the feast: those who fasted and those who did not.
5 / 6 · Holy Saturday into Sunday
The fast is broken
Home to the table: magiritsa soup and the red eggs dyed on Holy Thursday. Eggs are cracked against each other: “Christ is risen!” — “Truly He is risen!”
6 / 6 · Holy Saturday into Sunday
The light carried home
The flame is brought home still burning. With its smoke a small cross is drawn above the door, and it lights the vigil lamp before the icons for the year ahead.
Then, Sunday
The day after the night
Families and neighbours gather around the fire from the morning; the red eggs come out again.
The Gospel of the Resurrection is read in many languages, so that the whole world hears it.
From Pascha to Pentecost
The icons of the fifty days
Six feasts that carry the light of that night until Pentecost, and a silver egg to keep from one Pascha to the next.
Day 1 · Pascha
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Day 8 · Thomas Sunday
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Day 15 · The Myrrh-bearers
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Day 25 · Mid-Pentecost
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Day 40 · Ascension
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Day 50 · Pentecost
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A keepsake
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