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Services in April 2024

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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

 

3

 

Wednesday

3rd week of Lent, tone 2.

Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)

 

Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts

 

10.00
3 Wednesday Bible studies (online) 19.00
6 Saturday

3rd Saturday of Lent, tone 2.

Forefeast of the Annunciation

 Divine Liturgy 10.00
6 Saturday

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

 

 

10

 

Wednesday

 4th week of Lent , Veneration of the Cross, tone 3.

 

Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts

 

10.00
10 Wednesday

Akathist

Bible studies

 

(from church)

19.00

19.30
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

 
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
20 Saturday

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

 
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

 

29

 

Great and Holy Monday

 

Matins

 

19:00

 

30

 

Great and Holy Tuesday

     

 

Matins

 

19:00

Services in March 2024

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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR MARCH 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.

3 Sunday

Sunday of the Prodigal Son  Tone 6

Apostles of the 70: Archippus, Philemon, and martyred Equal-to-the-Apostles, Apphia (1stC)

 Divine Liturgy 10.00
9 Saturday

Memorial Saturday; Commemoration of the Departed, Tone 6

St. Tarasius, archbishop of Constantinople  (806)

Divine Liturgy

 

Panikhida

10.00

 

11:30
9 Saturday

Dread Judgement, Tone 7.

Last day of meat.

St. Porphyrius, archbishop of Gaza (420).

 Vespers 18.00
10 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
11 – 17 March – Cheesefare week  
13 Wednesday

Akathist

Bible studies

 

(translation from church)

19.00

19.30
16 Saturday

Cheesefare Saturday, Tone 7.

Commemoration of all the saints, who showed forth in asceticism.

 Divine Liturgy 10.00
16 Saturday

Cheesefare Sunday. Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise. Tone 8.

Forgiveness Sunday.

Last day of cheese/milk products.

Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan(451).

Right believing Daniel of Moscow (1303).

 Vespers 18.00
17 Sunday

Divine Liturgy

 

Vespers. Asking forgiveness of each other

10.00

 

 

12:00
The beginning of the Holy and Great Lent
18 Monday Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Create      19:00
19 Tuesday Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Create 19:00
20 Wednesday Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Create 19:00
21 Thursday Greatf Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Create 19:00

 

22

 

Friday

Clean Friday, Tone 8.

40 martyrs of Sebaste, (320)

 

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

 

10.00
23 Saturday

First Week of Great Lent.

Triumph of Orthodoxy. Tone 1.

St. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, St.  Euthymius, archbishop of Novgorod (1458).

 Vespers 18.00
24 Sunday Divine Liturgy

10.00

 

 

27

 

Wednesday

Second Week of Great Lent , Tone 1.

St. Theodore Icon of the Mother of God of Kostroma  (1613)

 

Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts

 

 

10.00

 
27 Wednesday

Akathist

Bible Studies

 

(translation from church)

19.00

19.30
30 Saturday

Second Saturday of Great Lent,

Commemoration of the Departed, Tone 1.

Venerable Alexius the Man of God (411)

 Divine Liturgy  from the Serbian monastery of St. Sava, Elaine

10.00

 
30 Saturday

Second Saturday of Great Lent. Tone 2

Second Sunday of Great Lent

Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica  Tone 2

 Vespers 18.00
31 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00

 

Services in February 2024

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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR FEBRUARY 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.

Download PDF…   Feburary 2024

3 Saturday

35th week after Pentecost

New martyrs of the Russian Church

Apostle Timothy (97)

 

 Vespers 18.00
4 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
10 Saturday

36th week after Pentecost

Transfer of relics of St Ignati the Godbearer (107)

 

 Vespers 18.00
11 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
17 Saturday

37th week after Pentecost

The Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple.

St. Agafi  (251). St. Theodosy, archbishop of Cehrnigov (1696).

 

 Vespers 18.00
18 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
24 Saturday

Неделя о мытаре и фарисее, глас 5.

Iveron Icon of the Mother of God (IX).

St. Meleti, archbishop of Antioch (381).

St. Aleksei, metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia, miracle worker (1378).

 

 Vespers 18.00
25 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00

Schedule of Services in April 2023

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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR APRIL  2023

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.

 

1 Saturday Saturday of the Akathist Hymn

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

 10.00
1 Saturday

Fifth week of Lent

Venerable Mary of Egypt

 Vespers 18.00
2 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
5 Wednesday Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts 10.00
5 Wednesday

Akathist to the Passion of Christ

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30
6 Thursday The Annunciation of our Most Holy Lady, Theotokos Evening service 19.00
7 Friday Divine Liturgy 10.00
7 Friday Pilgrimage to the Serbian monastery of St Sava, Elaine

Vespers

(in the monastery)

 19.00
8 Saturday

Lazarus Saturday.

Pilgrimage to the Serbian monastery of St Sava, Elaine

Divine Liturgy

(in the monastery)

 10.00
8 Saturday

Palm Sunday

Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem

Fish allowed

 Evening service 18.00
9 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
10 Monday

Passion Week

GREAT MONDAY

 Matins 19.00
11 Tuesday GREAT TUESDAY Matins 19.00
12 Wednesday

GREAT WEDNESDAY

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

 10.00
12 Wednesday GREAT WEDNESDAY Matins 19.00
13 Thursday

GREAT THURSDAY

Commemoration of the Mystical Supper

READING OF THE TWELVE GOSPELS

Divine Liturgy

 

 

Matins

10.00

 

19.00
14 Friday

GREAT AND HOLY FRIDAY

Remembrance of the Holy and Salvific Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Strict Fast.

 

Evening services

Procession.

 

 

16.00

18.00
15 Saturday

GREAT SATURDAY.

 

 

 Divine Liturgy 09.00
15 Saturday

GREAT SATURDAY.

The Reading of Acts.

The Midnight Office.

Procession.

 

22.30

23.15

23.50
16 Sunday

THE BRIGHT RESURRECTION

OF CHRIST

THE PASCHA OF THE LORD

 Divine Liturgy Mid-night
Bright week 16/04 – 22/04
19 Wednesday

Akathist to the Risen Lord

Bible studies

19.00

19.30
21 Friday

BRIGHT FRIDAY

Feast of the Life-Giving Spring of the Mother of God

Divine Liturgy

Procession.

Blessing of the waters.

 10.00
21 Friday Paschal Vespers 18.00
22 Saturday

Antipascha

Thomas Sunday
Vespers 18.00
19.00
23 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
25 Tuesday

Tuesday of the Second Week after Pascha

Radonitsa.

Remembering the departed.

Divine Liturgy

 

Panikhida

10.00

 

11.30
29 Saturday

Third Week after Pascha

Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women.

Right-believing Tamara, queen of Georgia

 Vespers 18.00
30 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
   

 

Dear brothers and sisters!

Kulichi and foods will be blessed:

  1. GREAT SATURDAY  15/04 – DURING THE DAY 12.00-12.30
  2. GREAT SATURDAY  15/04 – EVENING 21.30
  3. Following the Paschal Liturgy  16/04 – between 2.00 -2.30 in the morning

Services in March 2023

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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR  MARCH  2023 г.

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.

1 Wednesday Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete Evening service 19.00
2 Thursday Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete Evening service 19.00
4 Saturday Great Martyr St. Theodore Divine Liturgy 10.00

 

4

 Saturday

 

First Week of Great Lent.

Triumph of Orthodoxy 

 

Vespers

 

18.00
5 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
8 Wednesday Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts 10.00
8 Wednesday

Akathist to the Passion of Christ

Bible Studies

 

19.00

19.30
11 Saturday

Second Week of Great Lent

St Gregory Palama,

 

 Vespers 18.00
12 Sunday

 

Divine Liturgy

 

10.00
15 Wednesday Bible Studies (online) 19.00
17 Friday Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts 10.00
18 Saturday

Obtaining the relics of St Luke, archbishop of Simferopol

Memory of the Departed

 

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

 

Panikhida

10.00

 

11.30
18 Saturday

Third Week of Great Lent,

Veneration of the Cross

 

 Vespers 18.00
19 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
24 Friday

Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts

 

 10.00
25 Saturday

Fourth Week of Great Lent

St John of the Ladder

 Vespers 18.00
26 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
28 Tuesday Unction Anointing Service 19.00
29 Wednesday

Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

(Life of Mary of Egypt)

 Evening service 19.00
31 Friday Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God Akathist 19.00

 

Services in November 2022

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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR  NOVEMBER 2022 г.

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 Wednesday Bible studies (online) 19.00
4 Friday Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Divine Liturgy 10.00
5 Saturday Holy Apostle James, brother of the Lord
St Demetrius Saturday

Slavonic Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

 

11.30
5 Saturday Service in Geelong                   Vespers 18.00
6 Sunday

21st week after Pentecost

“Joy of All Sorrow” Icon of the Mother of God

 Divine Liturgy 10.00
9 Wednesday

Akathist

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30
12 Saturday

22nd week after Pentecost

Apostles of the 70  Stahia, Amplia, Urvana, Nakrissa, Apelia and Aristovula

 Vespers 18.00
13 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
15 Tuesday “Shuiu-Smolensk” Icon of the Mother of God Divine Liturgy
16 Wednesday Bible studies (online) 19.00
19 Saturday Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn Slavonic Liturgy 10.00
19 Saturday

23rd week after Pentecost

Venerable Lazarus the Wonderworker

 Vespers 18.00
20 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
20 Sunday Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Hosts Vespers 18.00
21 Monday Divine Liturgy 10.00
23 Wednesday

Akathist

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30
26 Saturday Service in Ballarat Divine Liturgy 10.00
26 Saturday

24th week after Pentecost

Apostle Phillip

 Vespers 18.00
27 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00

ADVENT                  FROM  28/11 TO 6/01/2023
30 Wednesday Bible Studies (online)        19.00

 

Services in October 2022

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SCHEDULE OF CHURCH SERVICES FOR OCTOBER 2022

Parishioners wishing to receive Holy Communion need to go to Confession before the beginning of Liturgy. Confessions begin at 9.30am. Following Liturgy, it is possible to ask for a panikhida or a moleben.

Download a printable version: October 2022.pdf

1 Saturday

Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross

 

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

 10.00
1 Saturday

16th week after Pentecost, Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross

Blessed Igor, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev

 Vespers 18.00
2 Sunday Divine Liturgy

10.00

 
5 Wednesday Bible Studies (online)        19.00
7 Friday Venerable Sergius, abbot of Radonezh, wonderworker Vespers 19.00
8 Saturday Divine Liturgy 10.00
8 Saturday 17th week after Pentecost. Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian Vespers 18.00
9 Sunday Divine Liturgy

10.00

 
12 Wednesday

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible studies

19.00

19.30
13 Thursday Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Vespers 19.00
14 Friday Divine Liturgy 10.00
15 Saturday

Righteous Theodore Ushakov.

 

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

 10.00
15 Saturday

18th week after Pentecost

Hieromartyr Dionysius the Aereopagite

 Vespers 18.00
16 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
19 Wednesday

Bible studies (online)       

 

 19.00
22 Saturday

19th week after Pentecost.

Venerable Ambrose of Optina

Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council

 Vespers 18.00
23 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
26 Wednesday

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible studies

19.00

19.30
29 Saturday

20th week after Pentecost.

Holy Prophet Hosea

 Vespers 18.00
30 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00

 

Services in May

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 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR MAY 2022

It is necessary to go to Confession before receiving Holy Communion. Confessions begin at 9.30 am. Following Divine Liturgy it is possible to ask for a panikhida or moleben

1 Sunday

2nd Week after Pascha (Antipascha)

Thomas Sunday

 Divine Liturgy 10.00
3 Tuesday

2nd Week after Pascha

The Day of Rejoicing Remembering the Departed

Divine Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

11.30
4 Wednesday Bible Studies  (online). 19.00
7 Saturday Martyrs Sabbas Stratelates and 70 soldiers

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

 10.00
7 Saturday

3rd Week after Pascha  The Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing women

Apostle and Evangelist Mark

Prayers for departed in war

 Vespers 18.00
8 Sunday

Divine Liturgy

 

Panikhida

10.00

 

12.00
11 Wednesday

Akathist to the Resurrection

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30
14 Saturday

4th Week after Pascha, Sunday of the Paralytic

Righteous Tabatha

 Vespers 18.00
15 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
18 Wednesday Mid-Pentecost Divine Liturgy 10.00
18 Wednesday Bible Studies (online). 19.00
21 Saturday Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

 10.00
21 Saturday

5th Sunday after Pascha, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Translation of the relics of St. Nicholas of Myra

 Vespers 18.00
22 Sunday Divine Liturgy

10.00

 
25 Wednesday

Akathist to the Resurrection

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30
28 Saturday (service in Ballarat) Divine Liturgy 10.00
28 Saturday 6th Week after Pascha, Sunday of the Blind Man Vespers 18.00
29 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00

 

Holy Pascha

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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!
Icon of Holy PaschaChrist is risen from the dead,
by death trampling death,
and to those in the tombs
granting life!

Great and Holy Friday

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Great and Holy Friday (22 April 2022)

Crucifixion icon

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!