Service Schedule For Great Lent 2024

Forgiveness Sunday: Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

8:30 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hours and Divine liturgy followed byq Trapeza

6:00 PM 9^th Hour, Vespers, Jesus prayer, Reading of Abba Dorotheos)

9:45 PM Small compline with Akathist, then the asking for forgiveness

Clean Week

Monday:

5:30 AM  Matins and 1^st, 3^rd and 6^th Hours and Prayer from Spiritual Psalter

1:30 PM 9^th Hour, Typica and Vespers, Jesus Prayer

6:15 Great Compline with the canon of St Andrew, Reading of Abba Dorotheos

Tuesday

3:30 AM Midnight Office, Matins and 1^st and 3^rd and 6^th Hours, prayer from Spiritual Psalter

1:30 PM 9^th Hour, Typica and Vespers, Jesus Prayer

6:15 Great Compline with Canon of St. Andrew

Wednesday

3:30 AM Midnight Office, Matins and 1^st and 3^rd and 6^th Hours

1:00 PM 9^th Hour, Typica and Vespers with Presanctified

6:15 Great Compline with Canon of St Andrew, Jesus Prayer and Reading of Abba Dorotheos

Thursday- Repose of Elder Joachim.

3:30 AM Midnight Office, Matins and 1^st and 3^rd Hours

8:30 AM 6^th Hour

1:00 PM 9^th Hour, Typica and Vespers with Presanctified

6:15 Great Compline with Canon of St Andrew, Jesus Prayer and Reading of Abba Dorotheos

Friday- Forty Martyrs of Sebastia

3:30 AM Midnight Office, Matins and 1^st and 3^rd Hours

8:30 AM 6^th Hour

12:30 PM 9^th Hour, Typica and Vespers with Presanctified (w. Gospel) followed by Supplicatory Canon to St Theodore with Kolyva

6:15 (Bishop is Greeted Formally), Small Compline with Akathist Canon and Salutations

  (Saturday is like the rest of the year)

Sunday of Orthodoxy-Special Schedule

8:30 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hours and Divine Liturgy of St Basil

6:00 PM(estimate) 9^th Hour, Great Vespers with Great Lenten Prokeimenon, Liti, and the Synodikon of Orthodoxy is Read

Weeks Two through Six of Great Lent

Daily Schedule – Monday-Friday in Great Lent

3:30 AM Midnight Office, Matins and 1^st and 3^rd Hours (Usually ends 6:15 or 6:30)

8:30 AM 6^th Hour (NOTE! On TUESDAYS we start at 8:45)

1:00 PM 9^th Hour, Typica and Vespers with Presanctified

6:15 Great Compline (Friday is Small Compline with chanted Canon and Akathist)

Saturday

3:30 AM -Midnight Office, Matins, 1^st Hour and Divine Liturgy

9:00 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hours

6:15 PM Vigil

Sunday

8:30 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hour and Divine Liturgy of St Basil the Great

4:00 PM 9^th Hour, Great Vespers with Great Prokeimenon, Jesus prayer and Reading

6:15 PM Small Compline with Akathist

Holy Week

 

Lazarus Saturday

Friday

12:30 PM Presanctified Liturgy then last memorial service

7:30 PM Vigil for Lazarus Saturday: Small Compline with canon, Matins and 1st Hour

Lazarus Saturday:

7:30 AM 3^rd, 6^th Hours and Divine Liturgy, followed by formal meal

6:15 Vigil for Palm Sunday

 

Palm Sunday:

8:30 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hours and Divine Liturgy and then back to church for final prayers

4:00 PM Vespers and Jesus Prayer

7:30 PM Compline with Jesus Prayer, Bridegroom Matins for Holy Monday & 1^st Hour

 

Holy Monday:

8:00 AM 3^rd & 6^th Hours

12:30 PM 9^th Hou, Typica, Presanctified Liturgy followed by Trapeza

7:30 PM Compline (Jesus Prayer), Bridegroom Matins for Holy Monday & 1^st Hour

Holy Tuesday:

8:00 AM 3^rd & 6^th Hours

12:30 PM 9^th Hour, Typica, Presanctified Liturgy Followed by Trapeza

7:30 PM Compline (Jesus Prayer), Bridegroom Matins for Holy Monday & 1^st Hour

 

Holy Wednesday:

8:00 AM 3^rd & 6^th Hours

12:30 PM 9^th Hour, Typica, Presanctified Liturgy

6:30 PM Vigil with Holy Unction Service followed by Matins and First Hour

Holy Thursday:

8:30 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hours

11:30 AM 9th Hour, Typica and Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil

7:00 PM Vigil: Compline (Jesus Prayer), Matins w. 12 Gospels, Royal Hours (followed by the Akathist of the Cross (attendance optional)

 

Holy Friday

1:30 PM Vespers with Apokathelosis

7:00 PM Matins with Lamentations, Procession and 1^st Hour

PASCHA

 

Holy Saturday:

9:00 AM 3^rd and 6^th Hours and then we read the Homily by St. Epiphanius (Homily is optional)

11:00 AM 9th Hour and Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil, followed by Trapeza   

8:00–11:00 PM Reading of the Acts

11:00 PM Pre-Communion prayers and Canon of Holy Saturday

12:00 Midnight Paschal Matins, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (followed by Trapeza)

PASCHA:

7:30 PM Agape Vespers and Compline