Services in March 2024

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

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

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 16/0422/04
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

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

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

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

 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

 

Service Schedule for September 2021

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR SEPTEMBER 2021

  This Schedule is a subject to COVID-19 restrictions.

 

1 Wednesday Bible Studies online        19.00
4 Saturday

Martyrs Agathonicus, Zoticus, Theoprepius (Bogolep)

Slavonic Liturgy

Divine Liturgy 10.00
4 Saturday Vespers 18.00
5 Sunday

11th Week of Pentecost

Apodosis of Dormition

Divine Liturgy 10.00
8 Wednesday Bible Studies online 19.00
11 Saturday Beheading of St John the Baptist Divine Liturgy

10.00

 

11 Saturday Vespers 18.00
12 Sunday

12th Week after Pentecost

Translation of relics of Alexander Nevsky, Venerable Alexander, abbot of Svir

Divine Liturgy

10.00

 

15 Wednesday Bible Studies online 19.00
18 Saturday

Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth

Slavonic Liturgy

Divine Liturgy 10.00
18 Saturday   Vespers 18.00
19 Sunday

13th Week after Pentecost

Miracle of St Michael the Archangel at Colossae

Divine Liturgy 10.00
20 Monday Vespers 18.00
21 Tuesday Nativity of the Theotokos Divine Liturgy 10.00
22 Wednesday Bible Studies online 19.00
25 Saturday   Vespers 18.00
26 Sunday

14th Week after Pentecost

Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem

Divine Liturgy 10.00
26 Sunday Vepers 18.00
27 Monday Exaltation of the Cross Divine Liturgy 10.00
29 Wednesday Bible Studies online 19.00

 

Services in August

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR AUGUST 2021

People wishing to receive Holy Communion need to go to Confession before the start of Divine Liturgy. Confession begins from 9.30am. Following the Liturgy it is possible to request a panikhida for the departed or a moleben for the living

 

1 Sunday

6th Sunday after Pentecost

Finding the relics of Venerable Seraphim of Sarov

Divine Liturgy 10.00
2 Monday Prophet Elijah Divine Liturgy 10.00
4 Wednesday

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible Studies

From church

19.00

19.30

7 Saturday

Dormition of Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos

(Slavonic)

Divine Liturgy 10.00
7 Saturday Vespers 18.00
8 Sunday

7th Sunday after Pentecost

Hieromartyrs Hermolaus, Ermina and Ermokrat priest of Nicomedia

Divine Liturgy 10.00
11 Wednesday Bible studies online         19.00
Beginning of the Dormition Fast  (14/08 – 27/08)
14 Saturday

Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord

Beginning of the Dormition Fast

Divine Liturgy 10.00
14 Saturday

8th Sunday after Pentecost

Blessed Basil the fool for Christ, wonderworker of Moscow

Vespers 18.00
15 Sunday Divine Liturgy 10.00
18 Wednesday Vespers 19.00
19 Thursday The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ Divine Liturgy 10.00
21 Saturday

(service in Ballarat)

 

Divine Liturgy 10.00
21 Saturday   Vespers 18.00
22 Sunday

9th Sunday after Pentecost

Apostle Matthew

Divine Liturgy 10.00
25 Wednesday

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible Studies

From church

19.00

19.30

27 Friday   Vespers 19.00
28 Saturday Dormition of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos

Divine Liturgy

(Dandenong)

 8.30
28 Saturday Vespert 18.00
29 Sunday

10th Sunday after Pentecost

Translation of the Holy Icon of Christ “Not Made By Hands” from Edessa to Constantinople

Divine Liturgy 10.00

 

Services in June 2021

TIMETABLE OF THE CHURCH SERVICES FOR JUNE 2021

Those who would like to take communion must confess prior to liturgy.  Confession begins at 9.30am. Requiem and prayers are available after liturgy upon request.

2 Wednesday Bible Studies online 19.00
5 Saturday

Venerable Euphhrosyne, princess of Polotsk

(Slavonic)

Divine Liturgy 10.00
5 Saturday Vespers 18.00
6 Sunday

Sunday of the Blind Man

6th Week after Pascha

Divine Liturgy 10.00
9 Wednesday Apodosis of Pascha Divine Liturgy 10.00
9 Wednesday Vespers 19.00
10 Thursday Ascension of our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ Divine Liturgy 10.00
12 Saturday Vespers 18.00
13 Sunday

7th Week after Pascha

Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (325)

Divine Liturgy 10.00
16 Wednesday

Bible Studies online

 

19.00
19 Saturday

Saturday before Pentecost: Commemoration of the Departed)

 (Slavonic)

Divine Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

11.30

19 Saturday Vespers 18.00
20 Sunday

PENTECOST SUNDAY

Patronal Feast

Divine Liturgy 10.00
21 Monday День Святого Духа Divine Liturgy 10.00
23 Wednesday

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible Studies

Recorded from Church

19.00

19.30

26 Saturday

(Service in Ballarat)

Apodosis of Pentecost

Divine Liturgy 10.00
26 Saturday Vespers 18.00
27 Sunday First Sunday after Pentecost & Feast of All Saints
last day before Apostles’ Fast
Divine Liturgy 10.00
Apostles’ Fast  (28/06-11/07)
30 Wednesday

Bible Studies online

 

19.00