Sunday 7th April Fast Day Holy Orthodox Divine Liturgy 2nd Sunday of Great Lent 3-30pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar.

The Great and Holy Week Divine Liturgies

Orthodox Great and Holy week liturgies 2013

Church of The Holy Rosary Chapel Street Castlebar Co/Mayo

Sunday 28th April 6pm Palm Sunday Divine Liturgy and blessing of palms and procession

Wednesday1st May Great and Holy Wednesday

Liturgy of Pre-Sanctified and Holy anointing 6pm Church of the Holy Rosary Castlebar Confessions before Liturgy

Thursday 2nd May Great and Holy Thursday Divine Liturgy of the Lords Supper 6pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar
Confessions before Liturgy

Friday 3rd May Great and Good Friday Liturgy of Passion and veneration and procession with Epistastis ( shroud of Christ) 6pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar

Saturday 4th May Great Holy Saturday

1130pm Pascal Matins 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 blest and this Liturgy.

Confessions will be heard before all liturgies this week and by appointment with clergy.

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 5th 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 9th 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 10th. 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 Strict Fast

Saint Martin The Confessor Pope of Rome (655)

Saturday 14th Fast Day. (Wine)

Sunday 15th Fast -

Monday 16th FastVirgin-Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia, in Lllyria (304) Martyr Leonidas of Cornith (258)

Tuesday 17th 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 18th Fast. Martyr Sabas The Goth of Wallachia (372) New Martyr John of Epirus (1526)

Thursday 19th Fast Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia and His Mother Philippa (2nd) Hieromartyr Alphege, Archbishop of Canturbury (1012)

Friday 20th Fast- 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 21st Fast- 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 22nd 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday St Theodore The Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis (613) Apostles Nathaniel, Luke, and Clement (1st)

Monday 23rd Glorious Great Martyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George (303) Martyr Anatolius and Protoleon, Soldiers Converted By Witnessing The Martyrdom of St George (303)

Tuesday 24th 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 25th Fast-Day (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 26th Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Amasea (C322) Righteous Virgin Glaphyra (322) St Stephen, Bishop of Perm (1396) St Joannicius of Devich in Serbia (1430)

Friday 27th Fast-Day (Wine Oil) Hieromartyr Symeon, The Kinsman of The Lord (107) St Eulogius The Hospitable of Constantinople (4th)

Saturday 28th St Memnon The Wonderworker. St Cyril, Bishop of Turov (1183)

Sunday 29th 3rd 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 30th 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)