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Orthodox Great and Holy Week Liturgies 2013
27, Apr 2013 - 18:46

Orthodox Great and Holy Week Liturgies 2013

Please note the Holy Saturday 4th May 23:30 pm Pascal Mattins and Liturgy takes the place of the 3:30pm Liturgy on Sunday 5th May so no afternoon liturgy on Sunday 5th May

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.

Sunday 5th May Holy Pascha Easter No after noon Liturgy today

May we wish Canon John Cosgrove the Reverend clergy and parishioners and people of Castlebar, All Gods blessing at this Holy Season from our Orthodox Catholic Churches

Monday bright Monday no fast

Tuesday Bright Tuesday No Fast

Wednesday Bright Wednesday No Fast

Thursday Bright Thursday NO Fast

Friday Bright Friday No Fast

Saturday Bright Saturday No Fast

Sunday 12th May 1st Sunday after Pascha Non Fast

Monday Martyr Isidore of Chios (251) St Leontius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1184-5)
St Isdore, Fool-For-Christ, Wonderworker of Rostov (1474)

Tuesday St Pachomius The Great (346) St Isaiah, Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov (1090)
St Dimitry, Crown Prince of Uglich and Moscow (1591)

Wednesday . (Wine Oil)
St Theodore The Santctified, Disciple of St Pachomius The Great (368)
St Musa The Child (Rome 5th) St George, Bishop of Mitylene (9th)

Thursday Apostle andronicus, of The Seventy, and His Fellow Labourer Junia (1st)
St Euphrosyne (Princess Eudoxia) of Moscow (1407)

Friday Fast Day (Wine Oil) Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra (303) St Macarius (Glukharev) Missionary Russia (1847)

Saturday Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prussia (2nd-3rd) St Dimitry Donskoy, Prince of Moscow (1387)
St Cornelius of Komel (1537)

Sunday 6th Sunday of Pascha. The Blind Man
Martyr Thallelaeus At Aegae In Cilica, and His Companions, Martyrs Alexander and Asterius (C284)
St Thalassius The Libyan (7th) Uncovering of Relics of St Alexis, Metroploitian of Moscow and Wonderwork of All
Russia (1431)

Monday Holy Equal-To-The-Apostles Emperor Constantine (337) and His Mother Hntus Elena (C330)

Tuesday Martyr Basiliscus of Comana (Pontus C308)
St John-Vladimir, Ruler of Serbia (1015) New Martyr Paul of The Peloponnese (1818)

Wednesday Fast Day (Fish Wine Oil)
St Michael The Confessor, Bishop of Synada (826) Mary The Wife of Cleopas, Myrrh-Bearer (1st)
Synaxis of Saints of Rostov-Yaroslavl St Euphrosyne, Abbess of Polotsk (1173)

Thursday
St Symeon Stylites (The Younger) of The Wonderful Mountain (592)
St Vincent of Lerins (C450) St Nikita Stylites, Wonderworker of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1186)

Friday
Third Finding of Honourable Head of Holy, Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Batist John (850)
Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230) Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th)

Saturday
Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus, of The Seventy (1st)
Martyrs Abercius and Helen, Children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st)
Great Martyr George The New At Sofia (Bulgaria 1515)

Sunday After Pascha. Fathers of First Ecumenical Council (325)
After-Feast of Ascension. St John The Russian (Confessor), Whose Relics Are On Island of Euboea (1730)
Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Sardis (3rd) St Melangel (Monacella), Hermit At Pennant Melangell(C590)
St Therapont, Abbot of Byelozersk (1426)

Monday . St Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene (1st)
St Germanus (Germain), Bishop of Paris (576) St Ignatius, Bishop and Wonder-Worker of Rostov (1288)
St Helena (Manturova), Nun of Diveyevo (1832)

Tuesday Virgin-Martyr Theodosia of Tyre (307-308)
St Alexander, Archbishop of Alexandria (328) St John of Ustiug, Fool-For-Christ (1494)
St Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol (1961)

Wednesday St Isaacius, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery At Constantinople (383)

Thursday Apostle Hermas, of The Seventy (1st) Martyr Hermeius At Comana (2nd