Schedule of services from February 22 to April 26, 2026

EASTER – April 12, 2026!

Schedule of services in our church for the period from February 22 to April 26, 2026

• February 22 – Cheesefare Sunday, Forgiveness Sunday. Commemoration of Adam’s expulsion from Paradise.
  9:40 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.
  12:00 p.m. – Rite of Forgiveness
  12:15 p.m. – Memorial service for the fallen of the “Heavenly Hundred” and all who gave their lives for the freedom of Ukraine

• February 23 – 1st week of Great Lent. Monday
  07:00 p.m. – Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (prostrations)

• February 24 – Tuesday
  07:00 p.m. – Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (prostrations)

• February 25 – Wednesday
  07:00 p.m. – Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (prostrations)

• February 26 – Thursday
  07:00 p.m. – Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (prostrations)

• March 1 – Sunday. 1st Sunday of Lent. Triumph of Orthodoxy
  9:45 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.
  07:00 p.m. – Passion Service (reading of the Passion Gospel according to Matthew)

• March 8 – Sunday. 2nd Sunday of Lent.
  9:40 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.
  07:00 p.m. – Passion Service (reading of the Passion Gospel according to Mark)

• March 15 – Sunday. 3rd Sunday of Lent. Veneration of the Cross
  9:45 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.
  07:00 p.m. – Passion Service (reading of the Passion Gospel according to Luke)

• March 22 – Sunday. 4th Sunday of Lent.
  9:45 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.
  07:00 p.m. – Passion Service (reading of the Passion Gospel according to John)

• March 25 – Wednesday. Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.

• April 3 – Thursday of the Great Canon (prostrations)
  06:00 p.m. – Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (prostrations)

• March 29 – Sunday. 5th Sunday of Lent. St. Mary of Egypt
  9:45 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.

• April 4 – Saturday. Lazarus Saturday. The Resurrection of Righteous Lazarus.
  09:00 a.m – Confession. Communion

• April 5 – 6th Sunday of Lent. Palm Sunday. The Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem
  8:00 a.m. – Confession.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.
  12:00 p.m. – Blessing of willows

• April 9 – Great and Holy Thursday. Commemoration of the Mystical Supper.
  06:30 p.m. – The Passion of Christ (reading of the 12 Passion Gospels)

• April 10 – Great and Holy Friday.
  07:00 p.m. – Vespers and the Procession with the Holy Shroud.

• April 11 – Great and Holy Saturday
  05:00 p.m. – Blessing of Paschal baskets.

• April 12
  HOLY RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. PASCHA. EASTER.
  07:30 a.m. – Canon of Great Saturday, Paschal Matins, Procession, Divine Liturgy, Blessing of Paschal baskets.

• April 13
  Bright Monday
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy.

• April 14
  Bright Tuesday
  10:00 a.m.– Akathist to the Resurrection of Christ.

• April 18
  Bright Saturday
  – Memorial services at the Bound Brook cemetery.

• April 19 – Thomas Sunday. Antipascha
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy
  02:00 p.m. – Memorial services at the cemetery in Clifton

• April 26 – Myrrh-bearing Women Sunday.
  10:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy