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How to live Holy Pascha week, learning from Church reading in the Holy Pascha Week

“The person who cannot benefit from the Holy Pascha Week, will have a hard time to get that benefit other times in the year” HH Pope Shenouda III In the Coptic rite the Pascha hour is composed of the following: 1-       Prophecies 2-       Homilies 3-       Doxology of “Thine is the Power …” 4-       Psalm prayed in a sad tone 5-       Gospel 6-       Exposition 7-       Litanies Prophecies: When you read the prophecies, try to relate to this prophecy, e.g. reading a prophecy from Exodus 32:7-15 the story of the deviation of the Israelites from God’s way after He brought them out of Egypt. “they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it” relating to this prophecy is obvious , how God brought us out of the darkness to the light in our Baptism and how we went astray. The Church used to pr...