SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR MAY 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.
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Wednesday |
GREAT WEDNESDAY |
Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts | 10.00 | ||||
| Matins | 19.00 | |||||||
| 2 | Thursday |
GREAT AND HOLY THURSDAY Commemoration of the Mystical Supper St Matrona the Blind of Moscow (1952) |
Divine Liturgy of St Basil the Great |
10.00
19.00 |
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| Matins with the reading of the 12 Gospels of the Passions of our Lord Jesus Christ | ||||||||
| 3 | Friday |
GREAT AND HOLY FRIDAY Remembrance of the Holy and Slavific Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Strict fast |
Vespers and the taking out of the Epitaphios (plashinitsa)
Burial anad veneration of the Epitaphios. Matins Procession. |
16.00
18.00 |
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Saturday
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GREAT SATURDAY
Reading of the Acts of the Apostles The Midnight Office Procession |
DIVINE LITURGY | 10.00 | ||||
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22.30 23.20 23.50 |
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| 5 | Sunday |
THE BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
PASCHA
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Divine Liturgy |
Mid- night |
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| Bright Week 5/05 – 11/05 | ||||||||
| 8 | Wednesday |
Akathist to the Resurrection of Christ Bible studies (in church) |
19.00 19.30 |
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| 10 | Friday |
BRIGHT FRIDAY Feast of the Life-Giving Spring of the Mother of God |
Divine Liturgy Blessing of the waters Procession
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10.00 | ||||
| 11 | Saturday |
Bright Saturday (Antipascha) Thomas Sunday |
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19.00 | ||||
| 12 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy | 10.00 | |||||
| 14 | Tuesday |
Second Week after Pascha Radonitsa Remembrance of the departed |
Divine Liturgy Panikhida |
10.00
11.30 |
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| 15 | Wednesday | Bible studies – online | 19.00 | |||||
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18 |
Saturday |
Second Week after Pascha (tone 1) “Inexhaustable Cup” icon of the Mother of God (1878). |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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| 18 | Saturday | Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women and St Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus | Vespers | 18.00 | ||||
| 19 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy | 10.00 | |||||
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22 |
Wednesday |
Wednesday of the Third Week after Pascha (tone 2) Translation of the relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia (1087). |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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| 25 | Saturday |
Fouth Week after Pascha Sunday of the Paralytic Righteous Tabitha (I). |
Vespers | 18.00 | ||||
| 26 | Sunday | Divine Liturgy | 10.00 | |||||
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29 |
Wednesday |
Wednesday of the Fourth Week after Pascha Mid-Pentecost (tone 3) |
Divine Liturgy |
10.00 |
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| 29 | Wednesday |
Akathist Bible studies – in church |
19.00 19.30 |
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Brothers and sisters! Kylichi and Easter foods will be blessed: 1. Great Saturday 4 May – during the day 12.00-12.30 2. Great Saturday 4 May – In the evening from 21.30 (11.30pm) 3. After the Paschal services 5 May – 2.00 -2.30am |