Liturgical Schedule
Sundays
Divine Liturgy
10:00 a.m.
Saturday evenings
Sacrament of Confession
4:30–5:15 p.m.
Great Vespers (every other week—please consult calendar)
5:30 p.m.
Feast Days During the Week
Divine Liturgy (please consult calendar)
6:15 p.m.
Wednesdays or Fridays During Great Lent
Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
(please consult calendar)
6:15 p.m.
What services do we celebrate?
On Sundays throughout the year, we celebrate the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the most common Eucharistic liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. Its core, the anaphora, dates back to the early centuries of the Church’s life.
On Saturday evenings and the eves of great feasts, we celebrate Great Vespers. Part of the Divine Office of the Byzantine Rite, Vespers is normally the beginning of each new liturgical day (cf. Gen. 1:5). On Saturday evenings, Vespers joyfully introduces the weekly celebration of Christ’s glorious Resurrection and triumph over death. Please consult the calendar for exact schedule.
On the Sundays of Lent and a few other major Feasts, we celebrate the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great. Its anaphora, also very ancient, recounts in greater detail the history of salvation and the petitions of the church.
On the Wednesdays (or sometimes Fridays) of Lent, we celebrate a penitential liturgy, that of the Presanctified Gifts, in which we pray the church’s vesperal prayer, sing typical Byzantine lenten hymnography, and solemnly receive the Holy Eucharist that was consecrated earlier (usually the previous Sunday).
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