Schedule for Holy Week

Church Address: 67 Siloam Road | Freehold, NJ 07728

Lazarus Saturday | April 8, 2023

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 9, 2023

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 10, 2023

Day of Monday Paschal Service:  9am - 12pm 

Eve of Tuesday Paschal Service:  5pm - 8pm 

Tuesday | April 11, 2023

Day of Tuesday Paschal Service:  9am - 12pm

Eve of Wednesday Paschal Service:  5pm - 8pm 

Wednesday | April 12, 2023

Day of Wednesday Paschal Service:  9am - 12pm

Eve of Covenant Thursday Paschal Service:  5pm - 8pm 

Covenant Thursday | April 13, 2023

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 | April 14, 2023

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 | April 14 11pm - April 15 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 | April 16, 2023

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