Holy Wednesday
“Is it not also the same today, that the hands of the many betrayers of Christ are at the table with Him…They eat His bread, and they speak against Him. They warm themselves by His sun, and they slander His name. They breathe His air, and they rise up against His Church. They live by His mercy, and they banish Him from their homes, their schools, their courts, their books and their hearts. They willfully and maliciously trample His commandments and ridicule His law. Are they not the betrayers of Christ and the followers of Judas?”
(St. Nikolai in the ‘Prologue’)