2024 Schedule for Holy Week
Church Address: 67 Siloam Road | Freehold, NJ 07728
Lazarus Saturday | April 27, 2024
Divine Liturgy: 8am - 10:30 am
Offering of the Lamb
Liturgy of the Word
Liturgy of the Faithful
Distribution
Raising of the Incense Prayers & Praise: 4:30pm - 8pm
Matins Prayer: 4:30pm - 7pm
Offering of the Morning Incense
Procession of the Cross (12 Gospel Readings)
Praises: 7pm - 8pm
Hosanna Sunday | April 28, 2024
Divine Liturgy: 8am - 11am
Offering of the Lamb
Liturgy of the Word (4 Gospel Readings)
Liturgy of the Faithful
Distribution
General Funeral Prayer: 11am - 12pm
Day of Sunday / Eve of Monday Paschal Service: 2pm - 5:30pm
Monday | April 29, 2024
Day of Monday Paschal Service: 9am - 12pm
Eve of Tuesday Paschal Service: 5pm - 8pm
Tuesday | April 30, 2024
Day of Tuesday Paschal Service: 9am - 12pm
Eve of Wednesday Paschal Service: 5pm - 8pm
Wednesday | May 1, 2024
Day of Wednesday Paschal Service: 9am - 12pm
Eve of Covenant Thursday Paschal Service: 5pm - 8pm
Covenant Thursday | May 2, 2024
Day of Covenant Thursday Service: 7am - 2pm
Morning Hour: 7am - 9am
1st Hour Paschal Service
Offering of the Morning Incense
Procession of Judas
Day of Covenant Thursday Paschal Service: 9am - 11 am
Liturgy of the Water - 11am - 12:30pm
Divine Liturgy & 11th Hour - 12:30pm - 2pm
Offering of the Lamb
Liturgy of the Word (No Catholic Epistle or Synaxarion)
Liturgy of the Faithful
Distribution (No Psalm 150) & 11th Hour Paschal Service
Eve of Great Friday Paschal Service: 4pm - 7:30pm
Great Friday | May 3, 2024
Great Friday Paschal Service: 7am - 5pm
1st & 3rd Hour
Prophecies / Homily
Paschal Praise
Psalm & 4 Gospels
Exposition
Daytime Litanies
6th Hour
Prophecies
Paschal Praise
Hymn of the Censor | Hymn of the Cross
Pauline Epistle
6th Hour Litanies | O Only-Begotten | Trisagion
Psalm & 4 Gospels
Exposition
Daytime Litanies
Remember Me O Lord
9th Hour
Prophecies
Paschal Praise
Hymn of the Censor | Hymn of the Cross
Pauline Epistle
9th Hour Litanies | Trisagion
Psalm & 4 Gospels
Exposition
Daytime Litanies
11th Hour
Prophecy / Homily
Paschal Praise
Psalm & 4 Gospels
Exposition
Daytime Litanies
12th Hour
Lamentations
Paschal Praise
Psalm & 4 Gospels
Exposition
Daytime Litanies
Four Hundred Lord Have Mercy's
Burial Hymn
Conclusion
Bright (Joyous) Saturday Service | May 3 11pm - May 4 7am
Midnight Praises: 11pm - 1am
Psalm 151
Canticles, Psali/Song for the Three Saintly Children
Readings
Matins, 3rd & 6th Hour Prayers: 1am - 3:30am
Offering of Morning Incense
Morning Doxology
Psali / Hymn for Bright Saturday
Saturday Theotokia
1st & 2nd Shiraat
Conclusion of the Theotokia
Readings
Psalms, Prophecies, & Gospel Readings of the 3rd and 6th Hours
Book of Revelations & 9th Hour Prayer: 3:30am - 5:30am
22 Chapters
Anointing of the Oil
Psalms, Prophecies, & Gospel Reading of the 9th Hour
Divine Liturgy: 5:30am - 7am
Offering of the Lamb
Liturgy of the Word (No Synaxarion)
Liturgy of the Faithful
Distribution (No Psalm 150)
Feast of the Resurrection Eve | May 4, 2024
Resurrection Feast Service: 7pm - 12am
Matins Prayer: 7pm - 8:30pm
Offering of the Morning Incense
Thanksgiving Prayer
Verses of the Cymbals
Litany of the Sick
Hymn of the Seven Tunes
Litany of the Oblations
Doxologies
Gospel
Divine Liturgy: 8:30pm - 12am
Offering of the Lamb
Liturgy of the Word
Pauline / Catholic Epistle / Acts / No Synaxarion
Enactment of the Glorious Resurrection
Resurrection Procession
Psalm & Gospel
Exposition
Papal Message
Liturgy of the Faithful
Distribution