April 10
Great and Holy Friday
Vespers (sung on Friday afternoon)
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The texts of the propers sung at Vespers (stichera on "Lord I call," Litya, Aposticha, Troparia and Kontakia that change daily according to either the day of the week or particular day of the month). Texts are "pointed" to be sung according to the tonal patterns of the Common Chant (L'vov-Bakhmetev Obikhod, 1869 edition). Texts are formatted in MS Word.
(For the weekdays of Lent, the dates of services are given as the date of the Menaion celebration, followed by the service listing and when it is sung. For example, those wishing to find the service text for the Presanctified Liturgy sung on the first Wednesday of Great Lent would find the service under March 6, where the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is listed as “sung on Wednesday.”)
April 11
Great and Holy Saturday
Vespers with the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great (sung on Saturday)
April 13
Bright Monday
Vespers of Pascha (sung on Sunday) and Divine Liturgy (sung on Monday)
April 14
Bright Tuesday
Repose of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and Enlightener of North America (transferred from April 7)
Vespers (sung on Monday) and Divine Liturgy (sung on Tuesday)
April 15
Bright Wednesday
Vespers (sung on Tuesday) and Divine Liturgy (sung on Wednesday)
April 16
Bright Thursday
Vespers (sung on Wednesday) and Divine Liturgy (sung on Thursday)
April 17
Bright Friday
The Lifegiving Spring of the Most Holy Theotokos
Vespers (sung on Thursday) and Divine Liturgy (sung on Friday)
April 18
Bright Saturday
Vespers (sung on Friday) and Divine Liturgy (sung on Saturday)
April 19
Antipascha
Second Sunday of Pascha, Tone 1
St. Thomas Sunday
April 21
Day of Rejoicing
Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Venevento, and his companions
April 23
Holy Glorious Greatmartyr, Victorybearer, and Wonderworker, George
April 25
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
April 26
Third Sunday of Pascha, Tone 2
Holy Myrrhbearing Women
April 30
Holy Apostle James, the Brother of St. John the Theologian
May 3
Fourth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 3
Paralytic
May 6
Midfeast of Pentecost
May 7
Repose of St. Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America
May 8
Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
Ven. Arsenius the Great
May 10
Fifth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 4
Samaritan Woman
May 11
Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, First Teachers of the Slavs
May 17
Sixth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 5
Blind Man
May 20
Leavetaking of Pascha
Forefeast of the Ascension
May 21
The Ascension of our Lord
Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine and his Mother, Helen
May 24
Seventh Sunday of Pascha, Tone 6
Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
Afterfeast of the Ascension
May 25
Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist, John
May 31
Eighth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 7
Pentecost – Feast of the Holy Trinity
June 1
Day of the Holy Spirit
June 7
1st Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 8
Sunday of All Saints
June 11
Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas
June 14
2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 1
All Saints of America
June 21
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 2
Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia
June 24
Nativity of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist, John
June 28
4th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 3
Translation of the Relics of the holy and wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus and John
June 29
The Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul