06 — The Paschal Feasts

Two of the Twelve are movable, computed from Pascha, and belong so tightly to the Paschal event that their propers stand in the Triodion and the Pentecostarion rather than the Menaion: the Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), which opens Holy Week, and the Ascension (the fortieth day after Pascha), which crowns it. This section treats the two feasts that bracket the Passion and the Fifty Days.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox

Purpose

Palm Sunday and the Ascension are the movable Great Feasts nearest Pascha, and their meaning is inseparable from it: the King enters the city to die and rise, and the risen Lord ascends to enthrone human nature in heaven. The section keeps them in the orbit of the Feast of Feasts.

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File	Description
the-entry-into-jerusalem.md	Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Pascha; the triumphal entry; Lazarus Saturday; the King who enters to die
the-ascension.md	The fortieth day after Pascha (always a Thursday); Christ enthroned; human nature taken into the Trinity

See Also

• Pascha: The Feast of Feasts — the feast from which both are computed
• Pentecost — the close of the Paschal fifty days, ten days after the Ascension