Lenten Sunday of the Cross
Sunday, April 07, 2013
“Come, ye faithful, let us adore the life-giving wood
on which Christ the King of glory stretched out His hands of His own will.”
On the Third Lord’s Day of the Great
Fast, the mid-point of our Paschal pilgrimage known as the Sunday of the
Adoration of the Precious Cross, we bless and greet the Christ-loving and
Reverend Clergy, Venerable Monastics, and Devout Faithful of the Holy Orthodox
Churches in North and Central America, praying that we all may “be enabled to
fight the good fight, to complete the course of the Fast, to preserve inviolate
the Faith, to crush underfoot the heads of invisible serpents, to be accounted
victors over sin, and, uncondemned, to attain unto and
worship the Holy Resurrection.”
With prayers that you may have a soul-profiting remainder of the Fast,
we remain
In Christ,
The Members of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America