The service of Vespers on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Sunday of Cheese Fare) which inaugurates the Great Fast — the penitential period leading to Holy Pascha, the Bright Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the end of the service, the Rite of Mutual Forgiveness — at which all the assembled ask one another in turn for reconciliation, so that all may enter the period of preparation that is the Lenten Spring in harmony. In Ukrainian and English.
The text of Great Compline with the Reading of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, as served on the 1st week of the Great Forty-day Fast. In Ukrainian and English.
Text for the portion of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete appointed at Great Compline for Monday of the First Week of the Great Forty-day Fast. In Ukrainian and English.
Text for the portion of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete appointed at Great Compline for Tuesday of the First Week of the Great Forty-day Fast. In Ukrainian and English.
Text for the portion of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete appointed at Great Compline for Wednesday of the First Week of the Great Forty-day Fast. In Ukrainian and English.
Text for the portion of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete appointed at Great Compline for Thursday of the First Week of the Great Forty-day Fast. In Ukrainian and English.
Text for the pan-Orthodox service of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. The first Sunday of Great Lent commemorates the final defeat of iconoclasm (843). The text is that approved by the Orthodox Clergy Association of the Greater Toronto Area; and was prepared for the joint celebration of the Sunday of Triumph of Orthodoxy at St. Volodymyr Cathedral of Toronto.
Text of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts — the form of the Liturgy prescribed on weekdays during the Great Fast (with only a few notable exceptions) — a work ascribed to our Father among the Saints Gregory the Dialogist, Pope of Rome. In Ukrainian and English.
The Lenten service of Passia — or the Divine Suffering of Christ, with readings and hymns of Holy and Great Week — a sobering reminder to the Faithful of the twilight of our Lenten journey — before the joyous dawn which heralds Christ’s Resurrection. In Ukrainian and English.
The text of the service of Orthros on Holy and Great Friday (served Thursday evening) with the reading of the 12 Passion Gospels, describing the betrayal, suffering and crucifixion of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. In Ukrainian and English.
