Midnight Easter service at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church

Choir members hold candles while they sing and chant during a midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Worshippers hold candles during a Holy Saturday midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Fathers Timothy Sas and Jason Houck, left to right, light the candles of altar boys during a midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Worshippers hold candles representing the first holy light during a midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Worshippers hold candles as Father Timothy Sas reads from the Gospel during a Holy Saturday midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Worshippers hold candles as Father Timothy Sas reads from the Gospel during a Holy Saturday midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Children hold their decorated Easter candles, also known as lambathes, during a midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Worshippers hold candles as Father Timothy Sas reads from the Gospel while being flanked by Fathers Luke Twito and Jason Houck, left to right, during a Holy Saturday midnight service leading into Easter morning.

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Father Timothy Sas throws holy water onto worshippers during a midnight service leading into Easter morning Sunday, April 16, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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Father Timothy Sas looks to the sky and Stephen Woehr, an altar server, bows his head as they listens to Father Jason Houck give a sermon at the start of a midnight service.

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Father Timothy Sas closes the gate to the altar during a midnight service leading into Easter morning.

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Fathers Luke Twito, Timothy Sas and Jason Houck, left to right, hold candles in the air as they chant with worshippers during a midnight service leading into Easter morning.

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Altar boys socialize before the start of a midnight service leading into Easter morning Saturday, April 15, 2023 at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Minneapolis.

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