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.
Scroll down to see a schedule of the services.
Families
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
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.
St Nicholas parish in Oxford is in the Sourozh diocese. They will be streaming their services in a mixture of Slavonic and English
Saint Elisabeth's parish, Wallasey (near Liverpool) is in ROCOR
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
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)
Bridegroom Matins 7pm Audio streamed from St Annes, Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
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/
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
Text for Bridegroom Matins
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
St Anne's uses the text from Orthodox Service Book by Hapgood available in pdf here. Here is a similar text
Celebration
Teaching
HOLY THURSDAY
Matins of the Twelve Holy Passion Gospels 7pm Audio streamed from St Annes, Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
Text available here
Text available here
Celebration
Teaching
HOLY FRIDAY
Imperial Hours 10am Audio Streamed from St Anne's Northampton (Mixlr Audio)
Matins of the Lamentations 7pm Live streamed from St Anne's, Northampton (Facebook Live)
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
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
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
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)