Services in August 2026
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES AUGUST 2026.
If you wish to receive Holy Communion you need to go to Confession. Confessions begin at 9.30 am. Following Divine Liturgy, you may ask that a moleben or panikhida be served.
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Saturday |
9th Week after Pentecost. Tone 7. Venerable Macrina, sister of St Basil the Great, First finding of the relics of Veneerable Seraphim the Wonderworker of Sarov (1903) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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Saturday |
9th Week after Pentecost. Tone 8. The Prophet of God Elijah (IX to Р.Х.). |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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Sunday |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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5 |
Wednesday |
Akathist Bible studies |
(from church) |
19.00 19.30 |
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Saturday |
10th Week after Pentecost. Tone 1. Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon (305). St Herman, wonderworker of Alaska (1837). Synaxis of the saints of Smolensk. |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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9 |
Sunday |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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Friday |
11th Week after Pentecost. Tone 1. Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord. Holy Maccabean Martyrs (166 BC.) |
Divine Liturgy Small blessing of the waters and blessing of honey |
10.00 |
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Saturday |
11th week after Pentecost. Tone 1. Translation of the relics of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (428) Finding of the Relics of Righteous Nicodeus, Gamaliel, and Abibus (415). |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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15 |
Saturday |
11th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2. Venerable Isaac, Dalmatus and Faustus (IV-V). Venerable Anthony the Roman, wonderworder of Novgorod (1147). |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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16 |
Sunday |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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18 |
Tuesday |
12th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2. Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ. |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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Wednesday |
Divine Liturgy Blessing of grapes and fruits. |
10.00 |
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Wednesday |
Akathist Bible studies |
(from church) |
19.00 19.30 |
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Saturday |
12th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. Holy Apostle Matthias (63). Synaxix of the saints of Solovki. |
Divine Liturgy (FRANKSTON) |
10.00 |
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22 |
Saturday |
12th week after Pentecost, Tone 3. Afterfeast of Transfiguration. Martyr Laurence, archdeacon of Rome, Hieromartyrs Sixtus, bishop of Rome and Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons, martyr Romanus the Soldier (258). Блж. Blessed Laurence, the Fool-for-Christ, of Kaluga (1515). Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Solovki. Synaxix of the Saints of Valaam. |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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Sunday |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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27 |
Thursday |
13th Week after Pentecost. Tone 3. Dormition of the Theotokos Patronal Feast in Dandenong |
Vespers (in our church in Oakleigh) |
19.00 |
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28 |
Friday |
Divine Liturgy (in Dandenong) |
8.30 |
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29 |
Saturday |
13th Week after Pentecost. Tone 3. Afterfeast of the Dormition. Translation of the Holy Icon of Christ “not-Made-By-Hands” from Edessa to Constantinople (944) Martyr Myron, priest of Cyzicus (250). Прп. Veneral Pimen of Ugresh(1880). Synaxix of the Saints of Kemerovo. |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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30 |
Sunday |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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Services in April 2026
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES APRIL 2026.
Address: 4 Park Road, Oakleigh, VIC 3166, Melway Ref 69 H5
If you wish to receive Holy Communion you need to go to Confession. Confessions begin at 9.30 am. Following Divine Liturgy you may ask that a moleben or panikhida be served.
| 2 | Thursday | UNCTION | 19:00 | |
| 3 | Friday (Elaine) |
Vespers in the St Sava, Serbian monastery (Elaine) | 19:00 | |
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Saturday (Elaine) |
Resurrection of Righteous Lazarus | Divine Liturgy in the monastery of St Sava | 10:00 |
| 4 | Saturday | Vespers | 18:00 | |
| 5 | Sunday | 6th week of Lent, (Palm Sunday). Entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem. |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
| 6 | Monday | Great Monday | Vespers | 19:00 |
| 7 | Tuesday | Great Tuesday The Annunciation. St. Tikhon the Confessor, patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia (1925) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00
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Tuesday
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Matins of Great Wednesday | 19:00 | |
| 8 | Wednesday | Great Wednesday Synaxix of the Archangel Gabriel |
Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts | 10:00 |
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Wednesday
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Matins of Great Thursday | 19:00 | |
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Thursday | Great and Holy Thursday Commemoration of the Mystical Supper. |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
9 |
Thursday | Matins with the reading of the 12 Gospels of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ | 19.00 |
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Friday
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Great and Holy Friday Remembrance of the Holy and Salvic Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Strict fast |
Vespers. Plashenitsa (Epitaphios) placed in the “tomb”
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16.00
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| 10 | Friday | Great and Holy Friday Buriel of the Holy Plashenitsa. |
Matins. Procession. | 18:00 |
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Saturday |
GREAT SATURDAY | Divine Liturgy |
10:00 |
| 11 | Saturday | Paschal service | Reading of the Acts of the Apostles. Pascha Matins Procession |
22.30 23.20 23.50 |
| 12 | THE BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST! PASCHA |
Divine Liturgy |
Mid-night | |
| 15 | Wednesday | Akathist to the Resurrection of Christ Bible studies – translated from church |
19.00 19.30 |
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| 17 | Friday | BRIGHT FRIDAY FEAST OF THE LIFE-GIVING SPRING OF THE MOTHER OF GOD |
Divine Liturgy Blessing of the Waters. Procession. |
10:00 |
| 17 | Friday (Dandenong) |
Paschal Vespers in the church of the Protection of the Mother of God, Dandenong | 18:00 | |
| 18 | Saturday | BRIGHT SATURDAY Martyrs Theodulus and Agathopedes and those with them (ок. 303). Translation of the relics of St.Job, patriarch of Moscow (1652) |
Divine Liturgy |
10:00 |
| 18 | Saturday | Vespers | 18:00 | |
| 19 | Sunday | 2nd week after Pascha (Antipascha), Thomas Sunday St. Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (582). |
Divine Liturgy |
10:00 |
| 21 | Tuesday | 2nd week after Pascha Radonitsa (Day of Rejoicing) Tone 1 Commemoration of the dead. |
Divine Liturgy Panikhida |
10:00 11.30 |
| 25 | Saturday (Frankston) |
2nd week after Pascha Venerable Basil, bishop of Parium (after 754). |
Divine Liturgy FRANKSTON |
10:00 |
| 25 | Saturday | Vespers | 18:00 | |
| 26 | Sunday | 3rd week after Pascha Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women: Mary Magdalene, Mary, wife of Cleopas, Joanna, Salome, Susanna, Mary and Martha, sisters of St Lazarus and Mary, mother of apostle James. Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus |
Divine Liturgy |
10:00 |
Services In March 2026
MOSCOW PATRARCHATE
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
PARISH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
RECTOR THE VERY REV IGOR FILIANOVSKI
Mobile 0403 381 967
Web: http://www.Holy–Trinity.org.au E-mail: HTCM@yandex.ru
Address: 4 Park Road, Oakleigh, VIC 3166, Melway Ref 69 H5
TELEPHONE OF THE SECTRETARY Fr. Leonid Mikheychik 0402 554 710
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES MARCH 2026.
If you wish to receive Holy Communion you need to go to Confession. Confessions begin at 9.30 am. Following Divine Liturgy you may ask that a moleben or panikhida be served.
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Saturday |
1st Week of Great Lent Tone 5 |
Vespers |
18.00 |
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Sunday |
Triumph of OrthodoxyMartyrs Pamphilius the priest, Valens the deacon, Paul,Seleucus,Porphyrius,Theodulus,Julian,Elias,Jerimiah, Isaiah, Samuel and Daniel (307-309) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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Wednesday |
LITURGY OF PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
4 |
Wednesday |
Akathist and Bible Studies |
19.00 and |
19.30 |
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Saturday |
2nd Week of Great Lent Tone 5Commemoration of the DepartedFinding of the relics of the Martyrs at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople (395-423) |
Divine Liturgy
Vespers |
10.00
18.00 |
8 |
Sunday |
2nd Week of Great Lent Tone 6St. Gregory of Palamas, Archbishope of ThessalonicaUncovering of relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow (1998) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
11 |
Wednesday |
LITURGY OF PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
14 |
Saturday |
3rd Week of Great Lent Tone 7 |
Vespers |
18.00 |
15 |
Sunday |
Veneration of the Precious Cross“Reigning” Icon of the Mother of God |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
18 |
Wednesday |
Akathist and Bible Studies |
19.00 and |
19.30 |
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Friday |
LITURGY OF PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
21 |
Saturday |
4th Week of Great Lent Tone 7Commemoration of the Departed Kursk-Root” Icon of the Sign of the Mother of God (1898) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
21 |
Saturday |
4th Week of Great Lent Tone 8 |
Vespers |
18.00 |
22 |
Sunday |
Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste (320) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
25 |
Wednesday |
Matins with the Great Canon and the reading of the life of St Mary of Egypt |
Matins |
19.00 |
27 |
Friday |
5th Week of Great Lent Tone 8Laudation of the Most Holy Mother of God |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
28 |
Saturday |
Saturday of the Akathist Hymn Tone 8 |
Divine Liturgy in Frankston |
10.00 |
28 |
Saturday |
5th Week of Great Lent Tone 1 |
Vespers |
18.00 |
29 |
Sunday |
Venerable Mary of EgyptMartyr Sabinas (287), Martyr Papas(305) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
The Holy Trinity Day
Our patron feast
The Day of The Holy Trinity 23/06/2024
Entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem
Entry of Our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem
Services in April 2024
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR APRIL 2024
If you wish to receive Holy Communion you need to go to Confession. Confessions begin at 9.30 am. Following Divine Liturgy you may ask that a moleben or panikhida be served.
The Great Lent
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Wednesday |
3rd week of Lent, tone 2. Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949) |
Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts |
10.00 |
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| 3 | Wednesday | Bible studies | (online) | 19.00 | ||
| 6 | Saturday |
3rd Saturday of Lent, tone 2. Forefeast of the Annunciation |
Divine Liturgy | 10.00 | ||
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3rd Sunday of Lent, Veneration of the Cross. Tone 3. Annunciation of our Most Holy Lady, Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. St Tikhon the Confessor, patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia (1925) |
Vespers | 18.00 | ||
| 7 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy |
10.00
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Wednesday |
4th week of Lent , Veneration of the Cross, tone 3. |
Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts |
10.00 |
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| 10 | Wednesday |
Akathist Bible studies |
(from church) |
19.00 19.30 |
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| 13 | Saturday |
4th week of Lent. tone 4. Venerable John Climacus (of the Ladder) (649). Venerable Mary of Egypt (522) |
Vespers | 18.00 | ||
| 14 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy |
10.00
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| 17 | Wednesday | Matins with the Great Canon of St Andrew. Mary of Egypt | 19:00 | |||
| 19 | Friday | 5th week of Lent, tone 4. | Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts | 10.00 | ||
| 19 | Friday | Saturday of the Akathist Hymn | Matins with Akathist | 19:00 | ||
| 20 | Saturday | Divine Liturgy | 10.00 | |||
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5th week of Lent. tone 5. Mary of Egypt, Apostles of the Seventy, Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes (I). |
Vespers | 18.00 | ||
| 21 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy |
10.00
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| 24 | Wednesday | Holy Unction | 19:00 | |||
| 26 | Friday |
6th week of Lent , tone 5.
Lazarus Saturday Commemoration of the Resurrection of Righteous Lazarus |
Vespers in the monastery of St Savva (Elaine) | 19:00 | ||
| 27 | Saturday | Divine Liturgy in the monastery of St Savva | 10.00 | |||
| 27 | Saturday |
6th week tone 6 Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday). |
Vespers | 18.00 | ||
| 28 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy | 10.00 | |||
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Great and Holy Monday |
Matins |
19:00 |
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30 |
Great and Holy Tuesday |
Matins |
19:00 |
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Holy Pascha
HOLY PASCHA: The Resurrection of Our Lord (Sunday 24/04/2022)
Pascha (Easter) Enjoy ye all the feast of faith; receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness.(Sermon of Saint John)
Christ is risen!
Christ is risen from the dead,
by death trampling death,
and to those in the tombs
granting life!
Great and Holy Friday
Great and Holy Friday (22 April 2022)
Troparion — Tone 4
By Your precious blood, / You have redeemed us from the curse of the law. / By being nailed to the cross and pierced by a spear, / You have poured forth immortality upon men. / O our Savior, glory to You!
Kontakion — Tone 8
Come, let us all sing the praises of Him who was crucified for us, / for Mary said when she beheld Him upon the tree: / Though You endure the cross, You are my Son and my God!
Palm Sunday
Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem / Palm Sunday
Troparion — Tone 1
By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your passion, / You did confirm the universal Resurrection, O Christ God! / Like the children with the palms of victory, / we cry out to You, O Vanquisher of death: / Hosanna in the Highest! / Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord!
