Sundays in Lent: Liturgy of St Basil
and Pan-Orthodox Vespers

Saturday and Sunday worship are always resurrectional, and Lent does not change their character. At the Divine Liturgy on Sundays in Lent, however, much longer prayers are read at the consecration of the bread and wine. This service is called the Liturgy of St Basil, after the one who wrote these prayers.

Each Sunday in Lent is traditionally associated with its own theme. Beginning March 13, a pan-Orthodox Vespers service is served each Sunday at 4 PM at a different area church, followed by a meal.

- March 13: St Mary's Cathedral (OCA), Minneapolis
The Triumph of Orthodoxy (commemorating the return of icons to the churches in 843 and the defeat of iconoclasm)

- March 20: St George Greek Orthodox Church, St Paul
Commemoration of St Gregory Palamas (d. 1359)

- March 27: St Mary's Greek Orthodox Church, St Paul
Veneration of the Cross

- April 3: Holy Trinity
St John Climacus (author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent)

- April 10: St. Elizabeth Mission, Eagan
St Mary of Egypt

- April 17: St Herman (OCA), Minneapolis Bridegroom Matins

For more information, visit the MEOCCA website.

To learn more about Sundays during Great Lent, click here.