Lenten Services 2025
Second Sunday of Lent:
Sunday, March 16, 10 am -Divine Liturgy, St Gregory Palamas
Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 pm – Presanctified Liturgy
Friday, March 21, 6:30 pm - Presanctified Liturgy
Saturday March 22, 5 pm - Vespers, Veneration of the Cross
Third Sunday of Lent:
Sunday, March 23, 10 am - Divine Liturgy, Veneration of the Cross
Tuesday, March 25, 10 am - Divine Liturgy, Annunciation
Wednesday, March 26, 6:30 pm – Presanctified Liturgy
Friday, March 28, 6:30 pm - Presanctified Liturgy
Saturday, March 29, 5 pm – Vespers, St. John of the Ladder
Fourth Sunday of Lent:
Sunday, March 30, 10 am – Divine Liturgy, St. John of the Ladder
Wednesday, April 2, 6 :30 pm – Presanctified Liturgy
Friday, April 4, 6:30 pm – Small Compline with Akathist Hymn
Fifth Sunday of Lent:
Sunday, April 6, 10 am – Divine Liturgy, St. Mary of Egypt
Wednesday, April 9, 6:30 pm – Presanctified Liturgy
Friday, April 11, 6 :30 pm – FINAL Presanctified Liturgy
Holy Week and Pascha 2025 –
Saturday, April 12, 10 am –Lazarus Saturday Divine Liturgy
Saturday, April 12, 5 pm – Vespers of Palm Sunday
Sunday, April 13, 10 am – Palm Sunday Divine Liturgy
Sunday, April 13, 5 pm – First Bridegroom Matins
Holy Monday, April 14, 6:30 pm – Bridegroom Matins
Holy Tuesday, April 15, 6:30 pm – Bridegroom Matins
Holy Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 pm –Holy Unction (Anointing of the Sick)
Holy Thursday, April 17, 10 am – Vesperal Divine Liturgy of the Mystical Supper
Holy Thursday, April 17, 6 pm – Matins with the 12 Passion Gospels
Holy Friday, April 18, 4 pm – Vespers with the Taking Down from the Cross
Holy Friday, April 18, 7 pm – Matins with the Lamentations at the Lord’s Tomb
Saturday, April 19, 10 am – Holy Saturday – Blessed Sabbath Liturgy
HOLY PASCHA:
Saturday night April 19, Begins at 11:30 PM - Midnight Service, Matins, and Divine Liturgy, followed by the blessing of baskets
Sunday, April 20, 3 pm - Agape Vespers and Picnic. Children’s egg hunt (weather permitting)
BRIGHT WEEK:
Bright Wednesday Vespers, 6:30 PM
Bright Thursday Liturgy, 10 AM
EXPLANATIONS OF HOLY WEEK SERVICES
Lazarus Saturday
Lazarus Saturday concludes Great Lent. This celebration remembers Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead and the promise of universal resurrection for all. Lazarus Saturday provides a bridge to Holy Week during which the Church services remember Christ's last week before his crucifixion and resurrection, his passion.
The first three days of Holy Week remind us of Christ's last instructions with his disciples.The Matins services of the evenings of Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, and Holy Tuesday, anticipating the events of the next day, share a common theme. These Services call for preparedness at the Second Coming, for the "thief comes in the middle of the night." (Matt. 26:1-13)

