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 | |
9 |
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 |