the marathon begins

[Mary of Bethany]

Tonight's Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts begins the Holy Week & Bright Week marathon. I am so ready!

I work through Holy Wednesday, then have Holy Thursday - Bright Wednesday off. I hate missing any of the services the next two weeks.

Here's our parish schedule:

Tonight: PreSanctified Liturgy
tomorrow morning: baptisms & Divine Liturgy for Lazarus Saturday
tomorrow evening: Great Vespers, Litya & Blessing of the Palms
Sunday morning: Divine Liturgy for the Entry into Jerusalem
Sunday evening: Bridegroom Matins
Monday morning: PreSanctified Liturgy
Monday evening: Bridegroom Matins
Tuesday morning: PreSanctified Liturgy
Tuesday evening: Bridegroom Matins
Wednesday morning: last PreSanctified Liturgy & last Prayer of St. Ephraim
Wednesday evening: Bridegroom Matins
Thursday morning: Divine Liturgy for Holy Thursday
Thursday evening: Matins w/Twelve Passion Gospels
Friday morning: Royal Hours
Friday afternoon: Vespers of Crucifixion
Friday evening: Matins w/Lamentations
Friday night/Saturday morning: Vigil at the Tomb
Saturday morning: Divine Liturgy
Saturday afternoon: nap!!!
Saturday night/Sunday morning: PASCHA!!!!!
Sunday afternoon: Agape Vespers & picnic
Monday morning: Bright Monday Liturgy
Tuesday morning: Bright Tuesday Liturgy
Wednesday morning: Bright Wednesday Liturgy
Thursday morning: Bright Thursday Liturgy
Friday morning: Bright Friday Liturgy

What's yours?

Mary

 

[nestoj]

Tonight's Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts begins the Holy Week & Bright Week marathon. I am so ready!

I work through Holy Wednesday, then have Holy Thursday - Bright Wednesday off. I hate missing any of the services the next two weeks.

Here's our parish schedule:
...
What's yours?

Mary

I'm not sure, but I think it's pretty much the same as yours. What I do know is my plan of those I intend to attend:

tomorrow evening: Great Vespers, Litya & Blessing of the Palms
Sunday morning: Divine Liturgy for the Entry into Jerusalem
work
pause
Friday afternoon: Vespers of Crucifixion
Friday evening: Matins w/Lamentations
Friday night/Saturday morning: Vigil at the Tomb
Saturday morning: Divine Liturgy
work

 

[Dorothea]

Sounds great! I'm feeling run down, all of a sudden, today, so I've had to slow down and took a nap this afternoon. Not feeling much energy for tonight's Compline and canon to Lazarus (I think that's what it's called). Ugh. Was planning on going, but not sure now.

For Holy Week, the boys and I plan to be at (hubby goes in separate car and goes to all the services):

DL for Lazarus Saturday morning (after that service is when the women and children make the palm branches for Palm Sunday - form them into crosses)

Palm Sunday DL

Holy Monday evening Bridegroom service

maybe Holy Tuesday evening Bridegroom service

Wednesday evening DL Holy Unction

Holy Thursday evening DL - Crucifixion service

Holy Friday afternoon - taking down of cross and evening DL Lamentations

Holy Saturday morning DL

not sure if I'll make midnight vigil this year because somebody has to stay home with Christopher if his brother decides he wants to go.

Agape Vespers service Pascha Sunday

 

[inconsequential]

Marathon, indeed. My help was fired so I'm back on 7 days a week for at least the next couple of weeks.

 

[nestoj]

Sounds great! I'm feeling run down, all of a sudden, today, so I've had to slow down and took a nap this afternoon. Not feeling much energy for tonight's Compline and canon to Lazarus (I think that's what it's called). Ugh. Was planning on going, but not sure now.

For Holy Week, the boys and I plan to be at (hubby goes in separate car and goes to all the services):

DL for Lazarus Saturday morning (after that service is when the women and children make the palm branches for Palm Sunday - form them into crosses)

Palm Sunday DL

Holy Monday evening Bridegroom service

maybe Holy Tuesday evening Bridegroom service

Wednesday evening DL Holy Unction

Holy Thursday evening DL - Crucifixion service

Holy Friday afternoon - taking down of cross and evening DL Lamentations

Holy Saturday morning DL

not sure if I'll make midnight vigil this year because somebody has to stay home with Christopher if his brother decides he wants to go.

Agape Vespers service Pascha Sunday

Better than what I plan.

I hope I don't ruin your thread, but, we make crowns of the branches, and decorate them with flowers. Like this:

Is this something like you guys make?

It would be nice to have us all together making both, crosses and crowns.

 

[Gxg (G²)]

Marathon, indeed. My help was fired so I'm back on 7 days a week for at least the next couple of weeks.

Sorry to hear

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Marathon, indeed. My help was fired so I'm back on 7 days a week for at least the next couple of weeks.

Oh, no. I'm so sorry!

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Sounds great! I'm feeling run down, all of a sudden, today, so I've had to slow down and took a nap this afternoon. Not feeling much energy for tonight's Compline and canon to Lazarus (I think that's what it's called). Ugh. Was planning on going, but not sure now.

For Holy Week, the boys and I plan to be at (hubby goes in separate car and goes to all the services):

DL for Lazarus Saturday morning (after that service is when the women and children make the palm branches for Palm Sunday - form them into crosses)

Palm Sunday DL

Holy Monday evening Bridegroom service

maybe Holy Tuesday evening Bridegroom service

Wednesday evening DL Holy Unction

Holy Thursday evening DL - Crucifixion service

Holy Friday afternoon - taking down of cross and evening DL Lamentations

Holy Saturday morning DL

not sure if I'll make midnight vigil this year because somebody has to stay home with Christopher if his brother decides he wants to go.

Agape Vespers service Pascha Sunday

That's cool that you make the crosses with the palms. We don't do that. We actually have a mix of palm branches and [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] willows (no palms in Russia ).

And I forgot about Holy Unction. We have that also.

Mary

 

[Gxg (G²)]

Sounds great! I'm feeling run down, all of a sudden, today, so I've had to slow down and took a nap this afternoon. Not feeling much energy for tonight's Compline and canon to Lazarus (I think that's what it's called). Ugh. Was planning on going, but not sure now.

For Holy Week, the boys and I plan to be at (hubby goes in separate car and goes to all the services):

DL for Lazarus Saturday morning (after that service is when the women and children make the palm branches for Palm Sunday - form them into crosses)

Palm Sunday DL

Holy Monday evening Bridegroom service

maybe Holy Tuesday evening Bridegroom service

Wednesday evening DL Holy Unction

Holy Thursday evening DL - Crucifixion service

Holy Friday afternoon - taking down of cross and evening DL Lamentations

Holy Saturday morning DL

not sure if I'll make midnight vigil this year because somebody has to stay home with Christopher if his brother decides he wants to go.

Agape Vespers service Pascha Sunday

It really is a marathon and takes a lot to get through.

 

[xenia]

We began the marathon this afternoon with the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God visiting our house!

Wow!

-Dazed Xenia

 

[katherine2001]

Our schedule looks a lot like yours, Mary. Our baptisms (2) are taking place before Vigil tomorrow night. Since I work the graveyard shift, I will skip the liturgy tomorrow and go to the baptisms and vigil.

 

[Dorothea]

Better than what I plan.

I hope I don't ruin your thread, but, we make crowns of the branches, and decorate them with flowers. Like this:

Is this something like you guys make?

It would be nice to have us all together making both, crosses and crowns.

Yes! and I like the crowns! We've never made those before. How beautiful!

Oh, and we did make the Compline tonight, thank God. I felt a bit better after having some vegetable soup for dinner before going to church.

 

[Dorothea]

We began the marathon this afternoon with the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God visiting our house!

Wow!

-Dazed Xenia

That's fantastic, Xenia! What a wonderful blessing!

 

[ArmyMatt]

We began the marathon this afternoon with the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God visiting our house!

Wow!

-Dazed Xenia

wow! I remember venerating that at Jordanville, what a blessing!