2020 Lenten Calendar St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church

Note: This calendar lists additional services for the season of Great Lent and Holy Week.

Regularly scheduled services are as usual (except Holy Saturday and Pascha Sunday morning)

Great Vespers: Saturdays 5:00 p.m. Matins: Sundays 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy: Sundays 10:15 a.m.

February

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Pharisee and Publican

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Prodigal Son Saturday of Souls

No morning Liturgy or evening Vespers

Diocesan Spring Gathering Palos Heights, IL

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 MeatFare

2020

March

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 CheeseFare 2 Great Lent 3 4 5 6 7 begins 6:30 p.m. Canon of 6:30 p.m. Liturgy of 6:30 p.m. Canon of 6:30 p.m. Akathist 6:30 p.m. Forgiveness St. Andrew of Crete Presanctified Gifts St. Andrew of Crete Hymn to the Vespers 6:30 p.m. Canon of St. (Lenten Supper Virgin Mary Andrew of Crete following service)

8 Sunday of 9 10 11 12 13 14 Orthodoxy 6:30 p.m. Compline 6:30 p.m. Liturgy of 6:30 p.m. Akathist

st Presanctified Gifts Hymn to the (1 Sunday of Lent) (Lenten Supper Virgin Mary 7:00 p.m. Pan-Orthodox following service) Vespers – St. Nicholas Church

15 St. Gregory 16 17 18 19 20 21 Palamas 6:30 p.m. Compline 6:30 p.m. Liturgy of 6:30 p.m. Akathist Presanctified Gifts Hymn to the nd (2 Sunday of Lent) (Lenten Supper Virgin Mary following service)

22 Veneration 23 24 25 Annunciation 26 27 28 of the Holy Cross 6:30 p.m. Compline of the Theotokos 6:30 p.m. Akathist Hymn to the (3rd Sunday of Lent) 6:30 p.m. Vesperal Virgin Mary 7:00 p.m. Pan-Orthodox Liturgy for the Vespers – St. John Annunciation Chrysostom Church

29 St. John 30 31 Climacus 6:30 p.m. Compline

(4th Sunday of Lent) 2020

April

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 6:30 p.m. Canon of St. 6:30 p.m. Liturgy of 6:30 p.m. Akathist 4:30 p.m. Vespers Andrew of Crete Presanctified Gifts Hymn to the 5:15 p.m. Evening (Complete) (Lenten Supper following Virgin Mary Workshop with service) (Complete) Fr. Moses Berry

5 St. Mary 6 7 8 9 10 11 Lazarus of Egypt 6:30 p.m. Compline 6:30 p.m. Liturgy of 6:30 p.m. Canon of Saturday Presanctified Gifts St. Lazarus th (5 Sunday of Lent) (Lenten Supper 9:30 a.m. Instructional

following service) Proskomidi 7:00 p.m. Pan- (for church school) Orthodox Vespers – Holy Trinity Greek 10:00 a.m. Divine Orthodox Church Liturgy

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Palm Sunday Holy Monday Holy Tuesday Holy Wednesday Holy Thursday Holy Friday Holy Saturday

6:30 p.m. Bridegroom 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Holy 6:30 a.m. Vesperal 9:00 a.m. Royal 10:00 a.m. Vesperal Service Bridegroom Service Bridegroom Service Unction Service Divine Liturgy of Hours Divine Liturgy of St.

(Note: Holy Unction is a St. Basil the Great Basil the Great 3:00 p.m. Great sacrament of the Orthodox (A light breakfast is provided Vespers (Pascha of 10:00 p.m. Matins Church and is available to for all, both grab-and-go and those who have prepared eat-in.) the Cross) Divine Liturgy of themselves by having Great and Holy Pascha received a recent Confession 6:30 p.m. Passion 7:00 p.m. during Lent) Gospel Service Lamentations Service

19 Pascha

11:00 a.m. Agape Christ Is Risen! Indeed He is Risen Al Maseeh Qam! Hakkan Qam! Vespers Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! Christos Voskrese! Voistinu Voskrese! 12:00 p.m. Easter Egg Hunt

2020