Holy Week and Pascha Schedule
Holy Week services to be live streamed are as follows:
Saturday, 9:30am — Lazarus Saturday Divine Liturgy
Sunday, 9:30am — Palm Sunday Divine Liturgy
Sunday — Wednesday, 6:30pm — Bridegroom Matins
Thursday, 9:30am — Vesperal Liturgy of Basil w/ Washing of Feet
Thursday, 6:30pm — Matins with Passion Gospels
Friday, 9:30am — Royal Hours
Friday, 3:00pm — Vespers with Unnailing of Jesus from the Cross
Friday, 6:30pm — Matins with Lamentations
Saturday, 9:30am — Vesperal Liturgy of Basil
Sunday, 9:30am — Paschal Divine Liturgy
Please note that there will be no Holy Unction service on Wednesday evening but in its place will be the Bridegroom Matins service. There will be no Pascal Midnight Office, Rush Procession or Matins on Saturday night. Some tips on how to observe the Rush Procession at home with your family will be available in the DD soon. Fr. Joshua, with agreement from the parish council, has decided it makes more sense to celebrate the Paschal Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning instead of the usual midnight service. Agape Vespers TBD
Resources
Holy Week and Children
tips for helping young children through Holy WeekJourney Through Holy Week Parent Guide
by the Greek Orthodox ArchdioceseChrist is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!
in several of the more common languages familiar to our parishionersChrist is Risen!
a reflection from Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Paschal Flowers Canceled This Year
You are invited to give a gift for the purchase of flowers for the bier on Good Friday and the Paschal Liturgy. Your gifts may be designated in memory/honor of a loved one or in Thanksgiving to God.
If you'd like to submit names, events, or other blessings of God you are remembering, please let us know the details!
Paschal Feast Canceled This Year
A Paschal Feast of Quiche (recipe & instructions) and Champagne along with our Pascha Baskets will follow immediately after the Paschal Liturgy. All are asked to drop off your basket in the parish hall.
Bright Week
Readers for Agape Vespers To be determined
If you speak another language and would like to help read the Gospel in as many languages as possible at Agape Vespers at TBD on Pascha, please let Roxann know. Text of the reading in many languages available, or you may provide your own Bible.