09/27/2026
Today the church celebrates the consecration of the church of the Honorable Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Cross was uncovered by the lover of God, Queen Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, from under the pile of Golgotha, after she ordered its removal. As for the reason how this great pile of dirt came into being: the Jewish leaders, when they saw all the signs and wonders that were manifested from the sepulcher of the Savior, such as raising the dead and healing the sick, became angry, and they sent forth throughout Judea and Jerusalem ordering all the people to cast the sweepings of their houses and the dirt over the sepulcher of Jesus of Nazareth. They continued to do so for more than 200 years until it became a very great heap.
When St. Helena came to Jerusalem and asked the Jews about the whereabouts of the Cross, they did not inform her. Finally, She called an old Jew called Judas who knew the place, and he denied it at first, but when she urged him, he told her about that pile. She ordered its removal and the Holy Cross was found. She built a church for it, consecrated it, and celebrated the Honorable Cross on the seventeenth day of the month of Tute.
Because the feast of the appearance of the Honorable Cross, which is on the tenth of Baramhat, always comes during fasting, it was substituted by the fathers for the Seventeenth of Tute which is the day of the consecration of its church.
Glory and worship be to Jesus Christ our Lord forever and ever. Amen.
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