Holy and Great Friday - Royal Hours
Fri, Apr 14
|St. John the Baptist GOC
Each of the traditional hours when Orthodox Christians pray glorify and honor the Passion of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ as he hangs upon the Cross.
Time & Location
Apr 14, 2023, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
St. John the Baptist GOC, 5300 El Camino Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89118, USA
About The Event
The Service of the Hours: These latter services have their roots in the devotional practices of the early Christians, and especially in the communal worship of the monastic communities.
Each of the four Hours bears a numerical name, derived from one of the major daylight hours or intervals of the day as they were known in antiquity: the First - Proti - (corresponding to our sunrise); the Third - Triti - (our midmorning or 9 a.m.); the Sixth - "Ekti - (our noonday); and the Ninth -'Enati(our midafternoon or 3 p.m.).
Each Hour has a particular theme, and sometimes even a subtheme, based upon some aspects of the Christ-event and salvation history. The general themes of the Hours are: the coming of Christ, the true light (First); the descent of the Holy Spirit (Third); the passion and crucifixion of Christ (Sixth); the death and burial of Christ (Ninth).
The central…