Fourth Week after Pascha, Tone 3.

Holy Right-believing Great Prince Demetrius Donskoy of Moscow (1389) his wife Eudocia, Euphemia (1407)

Fifth week after Pascha, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, Tone 4

Finding of the relics of St Alexius, metropolitan of Moscow, Wonderworker (1431).

Saturday of the Fifth Week after Pascha, Tone 4

Week of the 6^th Week after Pascha, Tone 5.

Sunday of the Blind man

Venerable John the Russian, the confessor (1730).

Apodosis of Pascha, Wednesday of the Sixth Week after Pascha, Tone 5

Preparation for the Ascension of our Lord.

Venerable Isaac of the Dalmatian Monastery,

Wednesday o fthe Sixth Week after Pascha, Tone 5.

Ascension of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

Saturday of the Sixth Week after Pascha, Tone 5.

Afterfeast of the Ascension

Saturday before Pentecost, Commemoration of the Departed, Tone 6

DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE APOSTLES (PENTECOST SUNDAY)

Divine Litugy

Patronal Feast

Monday

DAY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas

Wednesday

Akathist

Bible Studies

(recorded in Church)

19.00

19.30

Pentecost Saturday

Aposdosis of Pentecost

Translation of Relics of St Theophan. Recluse

First Sunday after Pentecost” Feast All Saints, Tone 8

Icon of the Mother of God: “Softening of Angry Hearts”, “The Indestructible Wall”

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Wednesday

GREAT WEDNESDAY

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

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

 4

Saturday

GREAT SATURDAY

Reading of the Acts of the Apostles

The Midnight Office

Procession

22.30

23.20

23.50

THE BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST

PASCHA

Mid-

night

Akathist to the Resurrection of Christ

Bible studies (in church)

19.00

19.30

BRIGHT FRIDAY

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

Divine Liturgy

Blessing of the waters

Procession

Bright Saturday (Antipascha)

Thomas Sunday

Second Week after Pascha

Radonitsa

Remembrance of the departed

Divine Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

11.30

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Second Week after Pascha (tone 1)

“Inexhaustable Cup” icon of the Mother of God (1878).

Divine Liturgy

10.00

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

Fouth Week after Pascha

Sunday of the Paralytic

Righteous Tabitha (I).

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Wednesday

Wednesday of the Fourth Week after Pascha

Mid-Pentecost (tone 3)

Divine Liturgy

10.00

Akathist

Bible studies – in church

19.00

19.30

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

Sunday of the Prodigal Son  Tone 6

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

Memorial Saturday; Commemoration of the Departed, Tone 6

St. Tarasius, archbishop of Constantinople  (806)

Divine Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

11:30

Dread Judgement, Tone 7.

Last day of meat.

St. Porphyrius, archbishop of Gaza (420).

Akathist

Bible studies

(translation from church)

19.00

19.30

Cheesefare Saturday, Tone 7.

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

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).

Divine Liturgy

Vespers. Asking forgiveness of each other

10.00

12:00

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Friday

Clean Friday, Tone 8.

40 martyrs of Sebaste, (320)

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

10.00

First Week of Great Lent.

Triumph of Orthodoxy. Tone 1.

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

10.00

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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

Akathist

Bible Studies

(translation from church)

19.00

19.30

Second Saturday of Great Lent,

Commemoration of the Departed, Tone 1.

Venerable Alexius the Man of God (411)

10.00

Second Saturday of Great Lent. Tone 2

Second Sunday of Great Lent

Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica  Tone 2

35^th week after Pentecost

New martyrs of the Russian Church

Apostle Timothy (97)

36^th week after Pentecost

Transfer of relics of St Ignati the Godbearer (107)

37^th week after Pentecost

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

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

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).

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First Week of Great Lent.

Triumph of Orthodoxy 

Vespers

18.00

Akathist to the Passion of Christ

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30

Second Week of Great Lent

St Gregory Palama,

Divine Liturgy

10.00

Obtaining the relics of St Luke, archbishop of Simferopol

Memory of the Departed

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

Panikhida

10.00

11.30

Third Week of Great Lent,

Veneration of the Cross

Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts

Fourth Week of Great Lent

St John of the Ladder

Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

(Life of Mary of Egypt)

Slavonic Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

11.30

21^st week after Pentecost

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

Akathist

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30

22^nd week after Pentecost

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

23^rd week after Pentecost

Venerable Lazarus the Wonderworker

Akathist

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30

24^th week after Pentecost

Apostle Phillip

ADVENT                  FROM  28/11 TO 6/01/2023

Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

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

Blessed Igor, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev

10.00

10.00

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible studies

19.00

19.30

Righteous Theodore Ushakov.

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

18^th week after Pentecost

Hieromartyr Dionysius the Aereopagite

Bible studies (online)       

19^th week after Pentecost.

Venerable Ambrose of Optina

Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council

Akathist to the Mother of God

Bible studies

19.00

19.30

20^th week after Pentecost.

Holy Prophet Hosea

2^nd Week after Pascha (Antipascha)

Thomas Sunday

2^nd Week after Pascha

The Day of Rejoicing Remembering the Departed

Divine Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

11.30

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

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

Apostle and Evangelist Mark

Prayers for departed in war

Divine Liturgy

Panikhida

10.00

12.00

Akathist to the Resurrection

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30

4^th Week after Pascha, Sunday of the Paralytic

Righteous Tabatha

Divine Liturgy

(Slavonic)

5^th Sunday after Pascha, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Translation of the relics of St. Nicholas of Myra

10.00

Akathist to the Resurrection

Bible Studies

19.00

19.30

Martyrs Agathonicus, Zoticus, Theoprepius (Bogolep)

Slavonic Liturgy

11th Week of Pentecost

Apodosis of Dormition

10.00

12th Week after Pentecost

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

10.00

Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth

Slavonic Liturgy

13th Week after Pentecost

Miracle of St Michael the Archangel at Colossae

14th Week after Pentecost

Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem