Sunday 13th April Palm and Passion Sunday 2:15pm Church of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar blessing of palms procession and Divine Liturgy of St James.

Strict fasting each day of Great and Holy Week

Please contact clergy during week for confessions

Saturday 19th April Orthodox 11:30pm Pascal Mattins leave-taking of Epistatis lighting of Pascal Candle procession and proclamation of Resurrection of Christ Our Saviour and Divine Liturgy please bring foods and eggs to be blessed and this Liturgy. Church of the Holy Rosary Castlebar

Bright Week Begins

Monday Fast Day. St Titus Winderworker (Constantinople 9th)

Tuesday Fast Day. St Nicetas The Confessor, Abbot of Medikion On Mt Olympus (Bithynia 824) St Joseph The Hymngrapher (883)

Wednesday Fast Day.St George of Mt Maleon in The Peloponnese (5th-6th). St Zosimas, of Palestine (6th) St Isidore, Bishop of Seville (636) St Plato The Confessor, Abbot of Studion (814)

Thursday Fast Day. St Mark Anchorite, of Athens (400) St Theodora of Thessalonica (892)

Friday Fast Day. St Euthychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (582) St Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (Syria 308) St Methodius, Equal-To-The-Apostles, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of The Slavs (885)

Saturday Fast Day (Wine Oil) Lazarus Saturday. Martyr Rufinus The Deacon and Aquilina, at Sinope (C310) St George The Confessor, Bishop of Mytilene (9th) St Sabas The New of Kalymnos (1948)

Sunday Fast Day (Fish Wine Oil) Entry of Our Lord Into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)

Monday fast day. Commemoration of Blessed Jospeph The All Righteous, and of The Unfruitful Fig Tree That Was Cursed By Our Lord. Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (362) Monk Martyr Bademus (Vadim) of Persia (376) Hieromartyr Theodore, Abbot of Crowland (870)

Tuesday . Fast Day. Commemoration of Parable of Ten Virgins. Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Zeno, Alexander, Theodore and Marcarius, at Carthage (3rd) Huldah The Prophetess (4 (2) Kings 22:14 7th BC) Hieromartyr Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

Wednesday 11th Fast Day . Commemoration of The Sinful Woman Who Annointed The Lord With Myrrh. Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum, Disciple of St John The Theologian (92) St Guthlac, Hermit of Crowland (714) St Callinicus of Cernica, Bishop of Rimnicului in Romnia (1868) The Appearance of The Most Holy Theotokos at Pochaev, (The Footprint)

Thursday 12th Fast Day (Wine Oil) .

St Basil The Confessor, Bishop of Parium (Hellespont 8th) Hieromartyr Zeno, Bishop of Verona (C380) Virgin Anthusa of Constantinople (C811) St Acacius of Kavsokalyvia (1730)

Friday 13th

Saint Martin The Confessor Pope of Rome (655)

Saturday. (Wine)

Sunday

Monday FastVirgin-Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia, in Lllyria (304) Martyr Leonidas of Cornith (258)

Tuesday Tuesday. Martyrs Raphael, Niclas, and Irene of Lesbos (1463) Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop of Persia (344) Martyr Adrian of Cornith (251) St Agapetus, Pope of Rome (536) St Donnan, Monk-Martyr of Eigg (C617) St Zosimas, Abbot of Solovki (1478) St Marcarius of Cornith (1805) St Paisius The Fool-For-Christ, of The Kiev Caves (1893)

Wednesday. Martyr Sabas The Goth of Wallachia (372) New Martyr John of Epirus (1526)

Thursday Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia and His Mother Philippa (2nd) Hieromartyr Alphege, Archbishop of Canturbury (1012)

Friday The Livegiving Spring of The Holy Theotokos. St Theodore Trichinas (The Hairshirt Wearer), Hermit Near Constantinople (?4th-5th) St Caedwalla, King of West Saxons (689) St Athanasius, Founder of The Monastery of Transfiguration, Metrona (1380)

Saturday Saturday. Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and His Companions (C305) St Beuno, Abbot of Clynnog (C640) St Anastasius of Sinai (C695) Kollyvades Fathers (18th)

Sunday Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday St Theodore The Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis (613) Apostles Nathaniel, Luke, and Clement (1st)

Monday Glorious Great Martyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George (303) Martyr Anatolius and Protoleon, Soldiers Converted By Witnessing The Martyrdom of St George (303)

Tuesday Joyfull Commemoration of The Dead. Martyr Sabas Stratelates (The General) of Rome (272) St Elizabeth The Wonder-Worker (5th) St Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury (624) Hieromartyrs Jospeph, Elias, Sabas, Metroploitian of Transylvania and Confessors of Orthodoxy (Romania) (17th-18th)

Wednesday (Wine Oil) Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (1st) St Phoebadius, Bishop of Agen (C393) St Sylvester Abbott of Obnora (1379) St Basil, Starets of Poiana Marului (Romania (1767)

Thursday Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Amasea (C322) Righteous Virgin Glaphyra (322) St Stephen, Bishop of Perm (1396) St Joannicius of Devich in Serbia (1430)

Friday Fast-Day (Wine Oil) Hieromartyr Symeon, The Kinsman of The Lord (107) St Eulogius The Hospitable of Constantinople (4th)

Saturday St Memnon The Wonderworker. St Cyril, Bishop of Turov (1183)

Sunday Sunday of Pascha. Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women Mary Magdalen, Mary The Wife of Cleopas, Joanna, Salome The Mother of The Sons of Zebedee, Susanna, and Mary and Martha The Sisters of Lazarus. Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.

Monday Holy Apostle James The Son of Zebedee, The Brother of St John The Theologian (44) St Donatus, Bishop of Euroea in Epirus (387) New Martyr Argyri at Constantinople (1725) St Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (Russia 1867)