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Holy Week & Pascha 2015 Schedule

April 4, 2015 By St. Paul Emmaus

Friday, Apr. 3:
8:30am Lenten Matins
6:30pm Small Compline with Canon of Lazarus

Saturday, Apr. 4:
9:15am Lazarus Saturday Matins
10am Divine Liturgy
5pm Palm Sunday Great Vespers (with Litia & Artoklasia)

Sunday, Apr. 5:
8am Palm Sunday Matins
9am Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom for Palm Sunday
6:30pm Bridegroom Matins

Holy Monday, Apr. 6:
8:30am Presanctified Liturgy
6:30pm Bridegroom Matins

Holy Tuesday, Apr. 7:
8:30am Presanctified Liturgy
6:30pm Bridegroom Matins (with the Hymn of Kassiani)

Holy Wednesday, Apr. 8:
8:30am Presanctified Liturgy
6:30pm Holy Unction

Holy Thursday, Apr. 9:
8:30am Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil
6:30pm 12 Gospels Matins

Holy Friday, Apr. 10:
8:30am Royal Hours
4pm Vespers of Unnailing (Lenten potluck follows)
6:30pm Lamentations Matins (Vigil follows)

Holy Saturday, Apr. 11:
10am Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil (The Harrowing of Hell)
10:30pm Rush Service, Matins and Divine Liturgy of Holy Pascha (Easter)
(Following the Divine Liturgy will be the Paschal Feast)

Pascha Sunday, Apr. 12:
11am Agape Vespers (Easter Egg Hunt follows)

Pascha 2015 Message of Bishop Thomas

March 27, 2015 By St. Paul Emmaus

GREAT AND HOLY PASCHA 2015

Beloved brother Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, God-fearing Monastics, and all my Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ our True God:

Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!

There is nothing after Christ and nothing other than Christ. If you are not an extension of Him or an expression of Him, then you are nothing. At Pascha, I become Him or I am nothing. If I have loved Him, then I grow through Him and I grow in Him. I do not want anything in His place because He is everything. All the saints are in Him and unto Him, and if you look at their faces, do not look for them. Search for the face of Jesus traced upon them. How should I conduct myself at Pascha? My only affair with my soul is to bring it to the Lord. With Him it comes into existence. The Father is the beginning and the end and in Him the Christ of history pours forth. I am nothing if I do not become a person of Pascha, one who looks to the Father, the end point.

– Metropolitan Georges (Khodr) of Mount Lebanon, “Who Shall I Be at Pascha?”

As we celebrate Holy Pascha, we also each ask, “Who shall I be at Pascha?” This feast defines who we are, not just as a climax or triumph of the liturgical year, but as the very core of our life and, indeed, not just the core, but the whole of our life. Our task as Christians is to become an “extension” or “expression” of Christ, to become so like Him in communion with Him that the face of Jesus is also traced upon us.

We become ourselves at Pascha. We gain our true selves in the Resurrection of Jesus, that death-conquering act which shook the universe and spelled the end of the power of hell and the devil, freeing us from their domination which distorts us as persons. As the Holy Scripture tells us, “Since, therefore, the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death He might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage” (Heb. 2:14-15).

Yours in the Risen Christ,

Rt. Rev. Bishop THOMAS (Joseph)
Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Charleston, Oakland, and the Mid-Atlantic

Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha 2015 Schedule

February 25, 2015 By St. Paul Emmaus

During the Holy season of Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha (Feb. 23 – Apr. 12), St. Paul’s will be celebrating services according to the following schedule (access our full Google calendar here):

First week of Lent: FEBRUARY 22 – MARCH 1

Sunday: 5pm Forgiveness Vespers

Monday: 6:30pm Great Compline with Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Tuesday: 6:30pm Great Compline with Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Wednesday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Presanctified Liturgy (followed by Lenten potluck)

Thursday: 6:30pm Great Compline with Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Friday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Small Compline with the Akathist to the Theotokos

Saturday: 9:15am Matins, 10am Divine Liturgy (commemorating St. Theodore and the Miracle of the Koliva), 5pm Great Vespers

Sunday: 8am Matins, 9am Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great (with procession of icons), 6pm Vespers for Sunday of Orthodoxy (at St. George Church, Allentown)

Second – Fourth weeks of Lent: MARCH 2 – 22

Monday: 6:30pm Great Compline (Presanctified Liturgy instead on March 9 ONLY)

Wednesday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Presanctified Liturgy (followed by Lenten potluck)

Friday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Small Compline with the Akathist to the Theotokos

Saturday: 10am Soul Saturday Liturgy (on March 14 ONLY), 5pm Great Vespers

Sunday: 8am Matins, 9am Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

Fifth week of Lent: MARCH 23 – 29

Monday: 3pm Vespers with 24 Stichera of Repentance, 6pm Small Compline with full Great Canon & Life of St. Mary of Egypt

Tuesday: 6:30pm Great Vespers for Annunciation

Wednesday: 6:30pm Vesperal Liturgy for Annunciation (Lenten potluck: fish, wine & oil permitted)

Friday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Small Compline with the Full Akathist to the Theotokos

Saturday: 5pm Great Vespers

Sunday: 8am Matins, 9am Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

Sixth week of Lent: MARCH 30 – APRIL 3

Monday: 6:30pm Great Compline

Wednesday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Presanctified Liturgy (followed by Lenten potluck)

Friday: 8:30am Lenten Matins, 6:30pm Small Compline with Canon of Lazarus

Lazarus Saturday (APR. 4), Palm Sunday (APR. 5) and Holy Week (APR. 5 – 12)

Saturday: 9:15am Lazarus Saturday Matins, 10am Divine Liturgy, 5pm Great Vespers

Sunday: 8am Matins, 9am Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom for Palm Sunday, 6:30pm Bridegroom Matins

Monday: 8:30am Presanctified Liturgy, 6:30pm Bridegroom Matins

Tuesday: 8:30am Presanctified Liturgy, 6:30pm Bridegroom Matins (with the Hymn of Kassiani)

Wednesday: 8:30am Presanctified Liturgy, 6:30pm Holy Unction

Thursday: 8:30am Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil, 6:30pm 12 Gospels Matins

Friday: 8:30am Royal Hours, 4pm Vespers of Unnailing (followed by Lenten potluck), 6:30pm Lamentations Matins

Saturday: 10am Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil, 10:30pm Rush Service, Matins and Divine Liturgy of Holy Pascha

Sunday: 11am Agape Vespers (followed by Easter Egg Hunt)

Holy Week & Pascha 2015 Schedule

Pascha 2015 Message of Bishop Thomas

Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha 2015 Schedule

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