Sunday 3rd April Holy Orthodox Liturgy 3-30pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar, All Are Most Welcome
Commemorations of The Day
Fast Day. (Wine Oil) Fourtst H Sunday of Great Lent.
St Nicetas The Confessor, Abbot of Medikion On My Olympus (Bithynia 824)
St Joseph The Hymnographer (883)

Monday 4th April 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, Abbott of The Studion.

Tuesday 5th April Fast Day. St Mark The Anchorite, of Athens (400)
St Theodora of Thessalonica (892)

Wednesday 6th April Fast Day. St Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (582)
St Platonida (Plationis) of Nisibis (Syria 308) St Methodius, Equal-To-The-Apostles, Archbishop of
Moravia and Enlightener of The Slavs (885)

Thursday 7th April Fast Day. (Wine Oil) Martyrs Rufinus The Deacon and Aquilina, At Sinope (C310)
St George The Confessor, Bishop of Mytilne (9th) St Sabas The New of Kalymnos (1948)

Friday 8th April Fast Day. (Wine Oil) Apostles Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegst Niphonon, Anmd Hermes
of The Seventy (1st) St Celestine, Pope of Rome (432) St Nipon, Bishop of Novgorod (1156)

Saturday 9th April Fast Day. (Wine Oil) Fifth Saturday of Great Lent. Saturday of The Akathist of The Most Holy Theotokos and Blessed Virgin Mary. Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea In Cappadocia (362)
Monk Martyr Bademus (Vadim) of Persia (376)

Sunday 10th April Fast Day. Fifth Sunday of Great Lent. (Wine Oil)
St Mary of Egypt. Martyrs Terence,Pompeius, Africanus,Maximus, Zeno,Alexander, Theodore and Macarius, of
Carthage (3rd) Huldah The Prophetess Hieromartyr Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

Sixth Week of Great Lent.

Monday 11th April Fast Day. Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum, Disciple of St John The Theologian
(92) St Callinicus of Cernica, Bishop of Rimnicului In Romania (1868) The Appearance of The Most Holy Theotokos
At Pochaev, The Footprint

Tuesday 12th April Fast Day. 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)

Wednesday 13 April Fast Day. St Martin The Confessor, Pope of Rome (655)

Thursday 14th April Fast Day. Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus, of The Seventy (C67)
Ardalion The Actor (4th) Woman Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (5th)
Martyrs Antony,John,and Eustathius of Vilna (Lithuania 1347)

Friday 15th April Fast Day. (Wine Oil) Martyrs Basilissa and Anastasia of Rome, Disciples of Apostles Peter and
Paul. (1st)

Saturday 16th April Fast Day. (Wine Oil) Lazarus Saturday.
Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia, In Illyria (304)

Sunday 17th April. Fast Day. (Fish, Wine, Oil) Entry of Our Lord Into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)
Holy Liturgy 3-30pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar, Blessings of Palms and Procession
Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop of Persia (334) Martyr Adraian of Cornith (251)
St Agapetus, Pope of Rome (536) St Zosimas, Abbot of Solovki (1478)
St Macarius of Cornith (1805) St Paisius The Fool-For-Christ, of The Kiev Caves (1893

Passion Week

Monday 18th April Fast Day Great and Holy Monday.
Commemoration of Blessed Joseph The All Righteous, and The Fig Tree Cursed By The Lord.
Martyr Sabas The Goth of Wallachia (372) New Martyr John of Epirus (1526)

Tuesday 19th April Fast Day. Great and Holy Tuesday. Commemoration of The Parable of The Ten Virgins.
Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge In Pamphylia and His Mother Philippa (2nd)

Wednesday 20th April Fast Day. Great and Holy Wednesday. Commemoration of Sinful Woman Who Anointed The Lord With Myrrh.

6:30pm Liturgy of Mass of Presantified and Anointing of All Present With Holy Oil. At Monastery (Next To Holy Rosary Church)

Thurday 21st April. Fast Day (Wine Oil) Great and Holy Thursday.

Holy Divine Liturgy of The Mystical Supper, Washing of Feet, The Prayer In Gethsemene, and The Betrayal
6:30pm The Monastery (Next To Holy Rosary Church.

Friday 22nd April (Strict Fast) Great and Holy Friday. Celebration of The Holy and Redeeming Passion of The Lord.

7:30pm Monastery (Next To Holy Rosary Church) Reading of Passion Gospels and Prayers and Veneration of The Holy Shroud (Epistatis) of Our Lord and Procession To Tomb

Saturday 23rd April Fast Day. (Wine) Celebration of The Burial of The Lord and His Descent Into Hell.
11:20pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar Solemn Pascal Mattins, Veneration of Epistatis (Shroud) of The Lord. The Lightening of Holy Lights and Procession To Tomb of Christ, and Solemn Proculmation of The Ressurection In All Tounges, Singing of Pascal Canon, Readings, and Pascal Sermon of St John, Blessing of Traditional Foods and Easter Eggs, and The Celebration of Divine Liturgy of St John.

(Please Bring Traditional Foods To Be Blessed and Painted Eggs and To Dress In Traditional Costumes From All Countries Where You Are Drawn From)

Christ Is Risen, Risen Indeed

Sunday 24th April Fast-Free Week Holy Pascha-The Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
(Beginning of The Pentecostarion)

Bright Week Begins

Monday 25th April Fast-Free Bright Monday
Glorious Great Martyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George (303) (Service Transferred From 23rd April)
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (1st)

Tuesday 26th April Fast-Free Bright Tuesday
Martyrs Raphael, Nicolas, and Irene of Lesbos (1463) St Stephen, Bishop of Perm (1396)

Wednesday 27th April Fast-Free Bright Wednesday.
Hieromartyr Symeon, The Kinsman of The Lord (107) St Eulogius The Hospitable, of Constantinople (4th)

Thursday 28th April Fast-Free Bright Thursday.
St Memnon The Wonder=Worker St Cyril, Bishop of Turov (1183)

Friday 29th April Fast Free Bright Friday. The Lifegiving Spring of The Theotokos.
St Basil of Ostrog In Montenegro (16th)

Saturday 30th April Fast-Free Bright Saturday. Holy Apostle James The Son of Zebedee, The Brother of St John
The Theologian (44)

Sunday 1st May 2nd Sunday of Pascha
3:30pm Holy Divine Liturgy Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar All Are Most Welcome.

Can we ask God's Blessing on the Parish Priest, Father John Cosgrove, The Rev Clergy and Parishioners of The Holy Rosary Church and Parish of Castlebar for all your support and kindness that we receive throughout the years

Christos Verchristi Christ Is Risen, Risen Indeed. Christos Anesti