Schedule of Services
Please find below the complete schedule for Great Lent, Holy Week, Pascha, Bright Week, and Ascension and Pentecost.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING ABOUT GREAT LENT:
On all Sundays of Great Lent we celebrate St. Basil's Liturgy. BE MINDFUL OF SATURDAY OF THE SOULS SERVICES. I will have sheets for names of the departed printed out soon (Please do your best to write clearly --I ONLY NEED FIRST NAMES), along with your names please provide your offering. On Saturday, the 8th of March, I will go to the cemetery and bless the graves and celebrate a Trisagion. Please celebrate your Memorials on these Saturdays--as Sat. of the Souls is the appropriate day for that service. Offering Coffee hour is a completely different gesture by families or individuals on a Sunday --please use the sign up sheet in the hall for that. I will speak a little more about this during announcements leading up to Saturday of the Souls to explain the details more specifically. After these Saturdays please advise me if you need to schedule a Memorial and we will certainly make sure that happens. (Please remember no memorials from Holy Pascha all the way through St. Thomas Sunday --because of the Celebration of the Resurrection of Christ!)
Please take special note of the start times of the services. Also take note that the times for Holy Week are in some places different from normal times. --Remember that I had previously made mention that Holy Week will be on a unique schedule.
Holy Confession will be by appointment, and I cannot encourage you enough to come to Holy Confession --Especially if you have not done so recently and certainly before Pascha!
Lenten Meals after evening services: Last year I had asked that if you wish to bring Lenten food (after Pre-Sanctified Liturgies --Wednesdays) that you were welcome to do so. We will repeat that this year. On days When Pre-Sanctified liturgy is celebrated if you wish to bring some Lenten Food and share with those who came to Liturgy feel free to do so. (Be mindful of the one Monday we are serving Pre-Sanctified --March 17th --St. Alexios & St. Patrick) You may also bring a little Lenten food if you wish on April 2nd --Part 3 of the Great Canon. I will include this information in the bulletin and announcements.
Fasting from food at Vesperal Liturgies if you wish to take Holy Communion: Mothers nursing infants shouldn't fast from food, others should refrain from eating after the lunch meal but should drink water, if you have a medical condition that requires you to eat, you need to eat food; you still may have a blessing to receive Holy Communion at Pre-Sanctified. Any questions should be directed to me concerning these matters of food fasting. Please don't take on too much. I don't want to see anyone fainting.
May God bless each and everyone of you and may you have a most spiritually and productive Great and Holy Lent and a Most Joyous Pascha.
In Christ,
+Fr. Gabriel Hanley
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SUNDAY, MARCH 2ND --FORGIVENESS SUNDAY
Saturday of the Souls: (ON MARCH 8TH I WILL GO TO RIVERVIEW CEMETERY TO BLESS THE GRAVES AND DO A TRISAGION AFTER LITURGY)
Saturday Feb: 22; Mar: 1st & 8th --09:00 AM Orthros ~10:00 AM Divine Liturgy
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ALL SUNDAYS IN GREAT LENT WE CELEBRATE ST. BASIL'S LITURGY --HOLY CONFESSIONS WILL BE DONE BY APPOINTMENT
Lent Week 1:
GREAT AND HOLY LENT BEGINS --MONDAY, MARCH 3RD
Monday Evening: Mar: 3rd
6:30 PM Great Compline
Wednesday Evening:
6:30 PM Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Friday Evening: Mar: 7th
6:30 PM First Salutations
SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY --MARCH 9TH
Lent Week 2:
Monday Evening: Mar: 10th, NO SERVICE --FATHER AT CLERGY RETREAT
Wednesday Evening: Mar: 12th NO SERVICE --FATHER AT CLERGY RETREAT
Friday Evening: Mar: 14th
6:30 PM Second Salutations
SUNDAY OF ST. GREGORY OF PALAMAS --MARCH 16TH
Lent Week 3:
Monday Evening: Mar 17th
6:30 PM Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Wednesday Evening: Mar. 19th --NO SERVICE TONIGHT
Friday Evening: Mar: 21st
6:30 PM Third Salutations
SUNDAY OF HOLY CROSS --MARCH 23RD
Lent Week 4:
Monday Evening: Mar: 24th
6:30 PM Great Vespers for the Annunciation
Tuesday Morning: Mar: 25th
08:30 AM Orthros ~09:30 AM Divine Liturgy for the Feast day of the Annunciation (DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM)
Wednesday Evening: Mar: 26th
6:30 PM Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Friday Evening: Mar: 28th
6:30 PM Fourth Salutations
SUNDAY OF ST. JOHN CLIMACUS (JOHN OF THE LADDER) --MARCH 30TH
Lent Week 5:
Monday through Thursday: (Mar: 31st - Apr: 3rd)
6:30 PM --Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete --(1 part each evening/with Great Compline --with the reading of the life of St. Mary of Egypt after the Canon 1 part of St. Mary's life will be read each evening)
Friday Evening Apr: 4th
6:30 PM Complete Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos
SUNDAY OF ST. MARY OF EGYPT --APRIL 6TH
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(BRIDGE INTO HOLY WEEK)
Saturday Morning: Apr: 12th
09:00 AM Orthros & ~10:00 AM Vesperal Liturgy for Saturday of Lazarus
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HOLY WEEK:
Palm Sunday Morning: Apr: 13th
Orthros and Divine Liturgy 09:00 AM/ ~10:00 AM
Palm Sunday Fish Luncheon after Liturgy
Palm Sunday Evening:
6:30 PM Orthros
Great and Holy Monday Evening: Apr:14th
6:30 PM Orthros
Great and Holy Tuesday Evening: Apr: 15th
6:30 PM Orthros
Great and Holy Wednesday Evening: Apr: 16th
5:00 PM Orthros --followed immediately (approx. 6:30 PM) by Great and Holy Unction --Sacrament
Great and Holy Thursday Morning: Apr: 17th
09:00 AM Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil the Great --Institution of the Holy Eucharist
Great and Holy Thursday Evening: Apr: 17th
5:30 PM Service of the Passion (Gospels)
Great and Holy Friday Morning: Apr: 18th
08:30 AM Royal Hours
Great and Holy Friday Afternoon: Apr: 18th
3:00 PM Vespers --Taking down from the Cross --Apokathilosis
Great and Holy Friday Evening (Lamentations): Apr: 18th
7:00 PM Lamenations
Great and Holy Saturday Morning: Apr: 19th
09:00 AM Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
Great and Holy Saturday Evening: Apr: 19th
11:00 PM Orthros
Great and Holy Pascha Night: Apr: 20th
Midnight -- Anastasi Service --Followed immediately by the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Great and Holy Pascha Afternoon: Apr: 20th
11:00 AM Agape Vespers --Reading of the Gospels in multiple languages.
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Bright Week:
Bright Monday: Apr: 21st
NO SERVICE
Bright Tuesday: Apr: 22nd
08:30 AM Orthros & ~09:30 AM Divine Liturgy Sts. Nicholas, Raphael, and Irene
Bright Wednesday: Apr: 23rd
08:30 AM Orthros & ~09:30 AM Divine Liturgy St. George the Great Martyr
Bright Thursday: Apr: 24th
NO SERVICE
Bright Friday: Apr: 25th
08:30 AM Orthros & ~09:30 AM Divine Liturgy for St. Mark the Apostle and Evangelist/Life-bearing Fount--Ζωηφόρου Πηγῆς
Bright Saturday: Apr: 26th
NO SERVICE
St. Thomas Sunday: Apr 27th
09:00 AM ORTHROS/~10:00 AM DIVINE
MEMORIAL AND COFFEE HOUR HONORING TOM VANGELOPOLOS --OFFERED BY HIS SON ANGELO
Additional services after Bright Week to be mindful of in our upcoming schedule:
Ascension of the Lord --Thursday, May 29th --08:30 AM Orthros/~09:30 AM Divine Liturgy
Sunday of Pentecost --Sunday, June 8th (This Sunday we will start Orthros at 08:30 AM --because of the extra service this day --Kneeling Vespers).
Orthros --08:30 AM
Divine Liturgy --~09:30 AM
Kneeling Vespers --10:30 AM
Upcoming Events
Orthros
Sunday, May 4 9 am
Divine Liturgy
Sunday, May 4 10 am
Meeting of the Ladies Progressive Society
Sunday, May 4 12 pm
Parish Council Meeting
Hellenic Centre Transfiguration Church 100 Perry Drive
Tuesday, May 6 5:30 pm
Orthros
Sunday, May 11 9 am
