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Welcome to our HOLY WEEK 2020 Page

On this page we will be providing as many of the resources as we can to help you with your home Holy Week and Pascha celebrations.

Scroll down to see a schedule of the services.

Families

Here is a wonderful resource for families to use as they follow the services during Holy Week. Download and follow along.

Live Streaming

St Anne's parish will be live streaming its usual Holy Week services via a Facebook channel and Mixlr audio. You do not need to have a Facebook or Mixlr accounts. Just click on the links below to access the St Anne's page, scroll down below the login information until you get to the posts from St Anne's. and view or listen to the live stream at the appropriate time. 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SaintAnnesNorthampton/ for video
Mixlr: https://mixlr.com/st-annes/​ for audio only

Other Live stream services

Cathedrale Alexandre Nevsky is our cathedral in Paris. They will be streaming all of their services via YouTube. Their services will be in Slavonic.
Cathedrale Alexandre Nevsky
St Nicholas  parish in Oxford is in the Sourozh diocese. They will be streaming their services in a mixture of Slavonic and English
https://www.facebook.com/StNOrthodox/
Saint Elisabeth's parish, Wallasey (near Liverpool) is in ROCOR
Saint Elisabeth's Orthodox Christian Church, Wallasey

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

PALM SUNDAY

Divine Liturgy 10am Video streamed from St Anne's, Northampton (Facebook Live)
Text for Great Vespers and Liturgy for Palm Sunday
We will also test broadcasting the liturgy via YouTube on this link  ​https://youtu.be/sc6X_codDJQ
Celebration
Teaching

HOLY MONDAY

Presanctified Liturgy 9am Streamed from St Nicholas, Oxford
Bridegroom Matins 7pm
 Audio streamed from St Annes, Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
Text of Bridegroom Matins
Listen to the Bridegroom Service for Holy Monday

Celebration
Teaching
​Bridegroom Matins is a service specific to the first four evenings of Holy Week (though it is often omitted on Holy Wednesday in favor of the service of Holy Unction) and commemorates the last days in the earthly life of the Lord. Incorporated into these services is the theme of the first three days of Holy Week; which is the last teachings of Christ to his disciples. As such, these services incorporate readings and hymns inspiring this theme.

The mood of the services is to experience sorrow and to feel Christ’s voluntary submission to His passions and highlight the purpose behind the evil that is about to take place against the Lord. The atmosphere is one of mourning (for sins) and is symbolic of the shame the Christian should feel for the Fall of Adam and Eve, the depths of hell, the lost Paradise and the absence of God. The vestments of the Priest and the altar clothes are black or deep purple to symbolize and enhance the atmosphere of mourning and remembrance of sins. The main emphasis of the Bridegroom Service is metanoia and each service has its own particular theme on repentance and watchfulness. One of its primary features is its troparion:

Behold, the Bridegroom comes in the middle of the night, and blessed is the servant He shall find vigilant; but unworthy is he whom he shall find neglectful. Beware therefore, O my soul, lest you be weighed down by sleep, lest you be given over to death and be closed out from the kingdom; but rise up crying out: “Holy! Holy! Holy are You our God; through the intercessions of the Theotokos, have mercy on us.”

​https://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2010/03/the-bridegroom-matins-orthodox-holy-week/

HOLY TUESDAY

Bridegroom Matins 7pm  Audio streamed from St Annes, Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
Text for Bridegroom Matins
Listen to the Bridegroom Matins for Holy Tuesday
Celebration

HOLY WEDNESDAY

Unction Service 7pm. Audio streamed from St Anne's, Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
​St Anne's uses the text from Orthodox Service Book by Hapgood available in pdf here. Here is a similar text
Listen to the Unction Service
Celebration
Teaching

HOLY THURSDAY

Matins of the Twelve Holy Passion Gospels 7pm Audio streamed from St Annes, Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
Text available here
LIsten to the Service of the 12 Gospels of the Passion of Christ
Celebration
Teaching

HOLY FRIDAY

Imperial Hours 10am Audio Streamed from St Anne's Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
Listen to the Imperial Hours service

​​Vespers of the Plaschanitsa 3pm Live streamed from St Anne's, Northampton (Facebook Live)

Matins of the Lamentations 7pm   Live streamed from St Anne's, Northampton (Facebook Live)
Listen to the Lamentations Service

Celebration
The carrying of the plaschanitsa (winding sheet) of Christ from the Holy Table to the bier in the centre of the church during the vespers service
Holy Friday Vespers of the Plaschanitsa text is available here
The vigil of the Lamentations of the Myrrh-bearers
Text for the  Matins of the Lamentations service here

GREAT AND HOLY SATURDAY

 Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St Basil 10am Live streamed from St Anne's, Northampton (Facebook Live)
​Text here

PASCHAL MATINS AND CANON

Midnight Office, Paschal Canon Saturday night 11pm Streamed live from St Anne's Northampton (Facebook Live) (no liturgy)

GREAT AND HOLY SUNDAY

PASCHAL LITURGY 8am  (Change to Schedule) Streamed live from St Anne's Northampton (Facebook Live)
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