“Your Cross, O Christ, we Venerate, and Your Holy Resurrection we praise and Glorify.”

Texts for the Services of Great Lent, Holy Week & Pentecost

Saturday of Souls – the first Souls Saturday is the Saturday before Judgement Sunday.

Synaxis of the Ascetics – Saturday before Forgiveness Sunday

Sundays of Holy & Great Lent

I see Your Bridal Chamber adorned, O my Saviour, and I have no wedding garment, that I may enter therein; O Giver of Light, make radiant the vesture of my Soul, and save me.

Holy Sunday evening – Holy Monday morning

Consider your final hour, O wretched Soul; be frightened by how the fig tree was cut down; and therefore with diligence cultivate the talent that was given you, being vigilant and crying out, “Let us not be left out of the Wedding Hall of Christ.”

Holy Monday evening – Holy Tuesday morning

The Final Judgement

The harlot let out her hair for You the Master; Judas put out his hand to the transgressors of the Law. She, in order to receive forgiveness, and he to receive the silver. And so we cry out to You Who were sold and Who set us free: O Lord, Glory to You!