April 24
Bright Thursday
Vespers (sung on Wednesday)
Divine Liturgy (sung on Thursday)
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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 25
Bright Friday
The Lifegiving Spring of the Most Holy Theotokos
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
Vespers (sung on Thursday)
Divine Liturgy (sung on Friday)
April 26
Bright Saturday
Vespers (sung on Friday)
Divine Liturgy (sung on Saturday)
April 27
Antipascha
Second Sunday of Pascha, Tone 1
St. Thomas Sunday
April 29
Day of Rejoicing
Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus
April 30
Holy Apostle James, the brother of St. John the Theologian
May 3
Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and Founder of Coenobitic Monasticism in Rus’
May 4
Third Sunday of Pascha, Tone 2
Holy Myrrhbearing Women
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 11
Fourth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 3
Paralytic
The service to Sts. Cyril and Methodius is transferred to Monday.
May 12
Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, First Teachers of the Slavs (transferred from Sunday)
May 14
Midfeast of Pentecost
May 18
Fifth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 4
Samaritan Woman
May 21
Leavetaking of the Midfeast
Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine and his Mother, Helen
May 25
Sixth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 5
Blind Man
Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist, John
May 28
Leavetaking of Pascha
Forefeast of the Ascension
May 29
The Ascension of our Lord
June 1
Seventh Sunday of Pascha, Tone 6
Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
June 7
Saturday before Pentecost
Memorial Saturday
June 8
Eighth Sunday of Pascha, Tone 7
Holy Pentecost
Feast of the Holy Trinity
June 9
Day of the Holy Spirit
June 11
Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas
June 15
1st Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 8
Sunday of All Saints
June 22
2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 1
All Saints of America
June 24
Nativity of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist, John
June 29
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 2
The Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul