{"id":15433,"date":"2022-09-28T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/?p=15433"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T10:44:21","slug":"his-grace-bishop-george-of-sydney-australia-and-new-zealand-celebrates-divine-services-for-the-feast-of-the-exaltation-of-the-life-giving-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=15433","title":{"rendered":"His Grace Bishop George of Sydney Australia and New Zealand celebrates Divine Services for the feast of The Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15442\" src=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5-125x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5-125x160.jpg 125w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5-802x1024.jpg 802w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5-768x981.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5-1203x1536.jpg 1203w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_5.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a>On Monday, 26 September 2022, the eve of the feast of The Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross, His Grace George, Bishop of Sydney Australia and New Zealand celebrated the All-night vigil at Sts Peter and Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, Strathfield. Co-serving with His Grace were the cathedral clergy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the Great Doxology, Bishop George wearing all vestments carried the Cross to the middle of the church and the rite of the Exaltation of the Cross was served.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">The rite of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was established in Jerusalem shortly after the finding of the Cross by Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine in memory of that event and also the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rite of the Elevation of the Cross is a special service which is usually performed by a hierarch at a cathedral. The <span lang=\"EN-US\">Cross is raised five times facing East, West, North, South and East again. Five petitions are read by a deacon prior to the Cross been raised and after each of them <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u201cLord, have mercy\u201d is sung and the Cross is washed with rose water during the Exaltation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, 27 September 2022, His Grace served the Divine Liturgy at the same cathedral.<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-1\" class=\"gallery galleryid-15433 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail\"><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"highslide img_2\" href='https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_1.jpg' onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/elevation_cross_1-121x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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Bishop of Sydney Australia and New Zealand celebrated the All-night vigil at Sts Peter and Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, Strathfield. Co-serving with His Grace were the cathedral clergy. During the Great Doxology,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=15433\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,5],"tags":[138],"class_list":["entry","author-protodak","has-more-link","post-15433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-english","category-parish-news","category-photos","tag-bishop-george"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15449,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions\/15449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}