+ Month of March +
Holy and Great Lent 2008
Welcome, the month of March has thirty one days.
The day has 12 hours and night 12.
Please join us for Chruch services listed below:
1st - Saturday: Saturday of the Souls; Saint Eudocia, the Righteous. In memory of all dead Orthodox Christians.
Matins, Divine Liturgy and Memorials - 8:00 A.M.
2nd - Sunday+: Sunday of Apokreo; Saint Hesychios the Martyr; Holy Father Nicholas Planas. Mention of the second and unbribable coming of Christ.
(Tone Grave, Eothinon 7' )
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:30 A.M.
6th - Thursday: Thursday of Cheesefare; 42 Martyrs of Amorion (845). Memory of the finding of the Holy Cross of Saint Helen (326).
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:00 A.M.
7th - Friday: Vespers - 7:00 P.M. and Memorials
8th - Saturday: Saturday of Cheesefare; Theophylaktos of, Bishop of Nicomedea.
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:30 A.M.
9th - Sunday +: Sunday of Cheesefare; Remembrance of exile of the first created man Adam from heaven.
(Tone Pl 4' Eothinon 8')
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:30 A.M.
Beginning of the HOLY LENT
Meat, cheese, eggs, fish, oil and wine NOT PERMITTED
Oil and wine permitted on Saturdays and Sundays
Fish permitted on the Annunciation of Theotokos.
KALI SARAKOSTI
10th - Monday: Clean Monday; Kodratos the Martyr and his companions.
Monday morning: Matins, Hours and Vespers - 8:00 A.M.
Monday evening: Mega Supper - 6:00 P.M.
11th - Tuesday: Sophronios, Patriarch of Jersusalem (638-44)
Tuesday morning: Midnight services, Matins, Hours and Vespers - 8:00 A.M.
Tuesday evening: Mega Supper - 6:00 P.M.
12th - Wednesday: Theophanes the Confessor (818).
Wednesday morning: Midnight service, Matins, Hours & Presanctified Lit.- 8:00 A.M.
Wednesday evening: Mega Supper - 6:00 P.M.
13th - Thursday: Removal of the relics of Nicephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Thursday morning: Midnight service, Matins, Hours and Vespers - 8:00 A.M.
Thursday evening: Mega Supper - 6:00 P.M.
14th - Friday: Benedict the Righteous (+543); Euschemon the Confessor, Bishop of Lampasakos.
Friday morning: Presanctified Liturgy - 8:00 A.M.
Friday evening: Memorials 6:00 P.M.
1st Salutations of the Theotokos - 7:00 P.M.
15th - Saturday: 1st Saturday of Lent: Theodore the Martyr.
Matins and Divine Liturgy 8:00 A.M.
Memorials
16th - Sunday+: 1st Sunday of Lent; (Sunday of Orthodoxy); Remembrance of the erection of the Holy Icons.
(Tone 1', Eothinon 9')
Matins and Divine Liturgy 8:30 A.M.
Vespers at Saint Stephen's, Philadelphia, 4:00 P.M.
19th - Wednesday: Chrysanthos and Daria the Martyrs.
Presanctified Liturgy- 7:00 P.M.
21st - Friday: James the Confessore; Thomas I, Patriarch of Constantinople (+610).
Presanctified Liturgy 8:00 A.M.
Memorials - 6:00 P.M.
2nd Salutations of the Theotokos - 7:00 P.M.
22nd - Saturday: 2nd Saturday of Lent: Basil the Holy Martyr, Kalliniki the Martyr.
Matins and Divine Liturgy 8:00 A.M.
Memorials
23rd - Sunday+: 2nd Sunday of Lent. Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki
(Tone 2', Eothinon 10')
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:30 A.M.
Vespers at Saint Michael's Church, Wilmington, Delaware - 4:00 P.M.
25th - Tuesday: The Annunciation of the Theotokos
Matins and Divine Liturgy at the celebrating Holy Churches.
National celebration for the anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821.
26th - Wednesday: Synaxis in honor of the Archagel Gabriel.
Presanctified Liturgy- 7:00 A.M.
28th - Friday: St. Hilarion the New, monk of Pelekiti Monastery.
Friday morning: Presanctified Liturgy - 8:00 A.M.
Friday evening: Memorials - 6:00 P.M.
3rd Salutations of the Theotokos - 7:00 P.M.
29th - Saturday: 3rd Saturday of Lent. Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, Kyrillos the Deacon.
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:00 A.M.
Memorials.
30th - Sunday+: 3rd Sunday of Lent: Veneration of the Holy Cross.
(Tone 3', Eothinon 11')
Matins and Divine Liturgy - 8:30 A.M.
Vespers at Saint John Chrysostom Church, Philadelphia - 4:00 P.M.
+Wishing all Love, Happiness, Peace and Unity+