Holy Week and Pascha 2024

This year Orthodox Christians celebrate Pascha on May 5. Pascha is literally “Passover” from the Aramaic and it is the celebration of passing from death to life through the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the God-man. In the West, this feast is popularly called “Easter,” the commemoration of the Lord’s resurrection. Orthodox celebrate this feast on a different day because the Orthodox Church holds to another means of calculating the feast that was prescribed by the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, while that calculation has changed in the West. Please come celebrate with us!

Below are the services of Pascha and the days leading up to the holiest day of the year:

Lazarus Saturday 4/27
Orthros: 8:00am
Divine Liturgy: 9:00am
Church cleaning and Decoration: 11am
Great Vespers: 6:00pm

Palm Sunday 4/28
Orthros and Divine Liturgy: 9:00am
Bridegroom Orthros: 6:00pm

Holy Monday 4/29
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy: 9:00am
Bridegroom Orthros: 6:00pm

Holy Tuesday 4/30
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy: 9:00am
Bridegroom Orthros: 6:00pm

Holy Wednesday 4/31
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy: 9:00am
Holy Unction: 6:00pm

Holy Thursday 5/1
Orthros: 8:00am
Liturgy of the Mystical Supper and Footwashing Service: 9:00am
Orthros of 12 Gospels: 6:00pm

Holy Friday 5/2
Royal Hours: 9:00am
Unnailing Vespers: 3:00pm
Orthros of Lamentations: 6:00pm
All-night Vigil following Lamentations

Holy Saturday 5/3
Vesperal Liturgy: 10:00am

Great and Holy Pascha 5/4-5/5
Rush Service, Paschal Orthros, and Divine Liturgy: 
Saturday, 10:30pm

Agape Vespers: 12:00pm
Pascha BBQ at Miguelito Park!: 1:00pm

See Calendar for Bright Week Liturgies!

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April 2025

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2
  • Paraklesis to St Nikiphoros
  • Full Canon of St Andrew and Reading of the Life of St Mary of Egypt
3
  • 9th Hour
  • Pre-Sanctified Divine Liturgy w/ Common Meal
4
  • Final Salutations to the Mother of God
5
  • Akathist Hymn Saturday
  • 3rd and 6th Hours
  • Divine Liturgy
  • Great Vespers
6
  • St Mary of Egypt
  • Orthros
  • Divine Liturgy
  • Orthodox Catechism (All Welcome)
7
  • Great Compline
8
9
  • 9th Hour
  • Pre-Sanctified Divine Liturgy w/ Common Meal
10
  • Lenten Orthros
11
  • Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
  • Church Cleaning and Decoration Pt. 1
  • Compline with Canon of Lazarus
12
  • Lazarus Saturday
  • Baptismal Divine Liturgy
  • Church Cleaning and Decoration Pt. 2
  • Great Vespers
13
14
  • Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
  • Bridegroom Orthros
15
  • Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
  • Bridegroom Orthros
16
  • Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
  • Holy Unction
17
  • Orthros of Holy Thursday
  • Vesperal Liturgy of St Basil w/ Footwashing Service
  • Orthros of the Twelve Gospels
18
  • Royal Hours
  • Decoration of Funeral Bier and Church
  • Unnailing Vespers
  • Orthros of Lamentations
19
  • Vesperal Liturgy of St Basil
  • Church Decoration for Holy Pascha
  • Services of Great and Holy Pascha
20
  • Great and Holy Pascha
  • Agape Vespers
  • BBQ at Miguelito Park
21
22
  • Martyrs Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene
  • Paschal Hours
  • Paschal Divine Liturgy
  • LVCK St. Timothy Serves w/Teen Soyo Helping
23
  • George the Trophy-Bearer
  • Paschal Hours
  • Paschal Divine Liturgy
24
  • Paschal Divine Liturgy and Water Blessing
25
26
  • Akathist to the Theotokos w/ Prayers for Children
  • Reader's Vespers
27
28
29
  • LVCK St. Timothy Serves w/Teen Soyo Helping
30
  • Paraklesis to St Nikiphoros

Give to St Timothy

“Don’t ever pay attention to anything earthly and unstable. Strive for the union of your soul with God.”

Saint Amphilochios