On ordinary days, the cathedral is open from 9:00 to 17:00
3 May Friday | Passion Week: Great Friday, Passion of Jesus Christ. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter - Full abstention from food. Venerable Theodore Trichinas ("the Hair-shirt Wearer"), hermit near Constantinople (400) | 08.30 – Royal Hours. Liturgy is not allowed 14.00 – Evening with the take-out of the Shroud. 16.00 – Matins with the burial rite. Confession |
4 May Saturday | Passion Week: Great Saturday, descent into Hades. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits). Hieromartyr Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proclus, and Sosius, deacons; Desiderius, reader; and Eutychius and Acutius, laymen, at Pozzuoli (305) | 08.30 – Hours 09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Common confession 12:00 - 20:00 – Consecration of Easter cakes and eggs 23.00 – Midnight service |
5 May Sunday | The Bright Resurrection of Christ, The Pascha of the Lord. The End of the Great Lent. Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, bishop of Anastasiopolis (613) | 0.00 – Easter Matins. Procession. Divine Liturgy. Consecration of Easter cakes and eggs 10.00 – 15.00 - Consecration of Easter cakes and eggs |
10 May Friday | Bright Friday. Bright Week. Fast-free. "Life- giving Spring" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week) | 08.30 – Hours 09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Common confession. Prayer service with blessing of the waters |
11 May Saturday | Bright Saturday. Bright Week. Fast-free. Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, and their companions: Martyrs Saturninus, Jakischolus (Inischolus), Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius, Mammius, the Virgin Cercyra, and Christodolus the Ethiopian, at Corfu (1st. c.) | 16:00 – Vigil Service. Confession |
12 May Sunday | Second Sunday of Pascha: Antipascha, St. Thomas Sunday. "Sladkoe lobzanie" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (9th c.) (movable holiday on the Antipascha) | 08.30 – Hours 09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Common confession. Distribution of Artos |
14 May Tuesday | Radonitsa, or Day of Rejoicing. Commemoration of the Dead. Tone one. Venerable Paphnutius, abbot of Borovsk (1477) | 08.30 – Hours 09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Common confession 11.00 – Memorial Service |
18 May Saturday | Second Week of Pascha. Tone one. Great-martyr Irene of Thessalonica (1st-2nd c.) | 15.00 – Memorial Service 16.00 – Vigil Service. Confession |
19 May Sunday | Third Sunday of Pascha: The Myrrh-bearing Women. Tone two. Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha) | 08.30 – Hours 09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Common confession |
25 May Saturday | Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. St. Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus (403) | 15.00 – Memorial Service 16.00 – Vigil Service. Confession |
26 May Sunday | Fourth Sunday of Pascha: The Paralyzed Man. Tone three. Translation of the relics of Martyr Abramius of Bulgaria (1230) (movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Pascha) | 08.30 – Hours 09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Common confession |