Are there any Eastern Orthodox Churches in America that have Divine Liturgies during the week days ?

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Are there any Eastern Orthodox Churches in America that have Divine Liturgies during the week days like Roman Catholic Churches have mass during the week days ?

That would be great to have during the week days.
 
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Are there any Eastern Orthodox Churches in America that have Divine Liturgies during the week days like Roman Catholic Churches have mass during the week days ?

That would be great to have during the week days.


My former Coptic OO church of my previous hometown could come close to that. Not a daily service unless we you were in Holy Week. But often a saintly feast day Divine liturgy in the morning or night (Tuesday-Friday) for each saint recognized in the Sinaxerion, or each milestone season of the general Church calendar relating to Christ's life, a Wednesday Bible study and Vespers, and of course a raising of incense vespers for early Saturday evening, with the typical Sunday divine liturgy etc. with fellowship and other special events sometimes scheduled for Sunday evening.


I think a lot of this sort of thing depends on the local church. A number of EO priests don't have congregations large enough that completely support them having to work a secular job etc. besides family duties. While the Copts are blessed that they often have pretty good numbers of dedicated church folk and having a full time priest is usually viable unless it is a mission church in a new area.
 
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I have seen in larger parishes (with several priests) that they sometimes celebrate many Saints so that it seems they usually have several weekday Liturgies each week. But more often I see only major feast days and the most important Saints to a particular community/jurisdiction.
 
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I wish, but I couldn't attend :(

I almost never have a weekday morning off and I work 1/3rd of Sundays as is, so... :/

What I miss most is not even the services but the fact that many / most churches were open at all times back home. Just the fact that you'd be on a bus, say random afternoon or evening, and you'd have an impulse to jump off go in the church, light a candle, pray a few minutes, go back on you way... it's ... I just miss it.
 
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We have Tuesday and Thursday Divine Liturgies most weeks, and if a Feast Day falls on a weekday that is when we observe it. But we have just one priest, so Divine Liturgy every day isn’t practical.
 
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Some weekdays: happens in some places, I used to be at a parish which had a regular liturgy on one of the weekdays at 6:30am. Doing things *daily*, though, gets to be a bit much of a demand on everybody. Population density, celibate clergy, and easier liturgics contributed to making daily mass a common thing for Catholics.
 
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