Photo Journal: Holy
Protection Russian Orthodox Church, Austin, Texas
A parish of the Russian Orthodox Church
Outside
Russia. 1701 Peridot Rd., Pflugerville, TX 78660
http://www.orthodoxaustin.org
(Hear our choir (June 6 '09)----Our
Father---Trisagion)
Pictures of Pascha 2011--April 24,
2011--Holy
Pascha,
that is, Easter Sunday
Christ is Risen! Xpucmoc
Bockpece!
Above:
Some of the 80 faithful who gathered at the new church for
its first Pascha, in April of 2011.
Sixty faithful stayed until the very end of the service this year.
Above: (click on
image for
greater detail) the Procession near midnight for Holy
Pascha, the
Resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and God and Saviour.
73 souls
attended the church this night; towards the end of the
Liturgy at about
2:20 a.m., there were only about 60 still left
praying.
Procession
in
the night of Holy Pascha--Christ is Risen!
Procession
stops
before the front doors: "Let God arise!" and "Christ is
Risen!"
Procession
stops
at the front doors.
The
prayers
read in the center of the church after re-entry into the
church: the great litany
Prayers
in
the center of the church (beginning of Matins)
Paschal
Matins
Paschal Matins
Thanks
to
parish photographer and warden, Sergei
Larin. Back
to
http://www.orthodoxaustin.org
