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neen-
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Great and Holy Thursday is a day of strict fasting.

All services in Great and Holy Week are moved ahead 12 hours.

The reason is probably to make the services more convenient for the people to attend.

Great and Holy Week or Pascha Cycle
Liturgical
Service
of what
Liturgical
Day
Held on
what
Calendar
Day
Time
held
Vespers
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
of Great
and Holy
Thursday
on Great
and Holy
Wednesday
morning
Matins
Service of Forgiveness
and
Service of Anointing
with Holy Oil
of Great
and Holy
Thursday
on Great
and Holy
Wednesday
evening
Vespers
Divine Liturgy
of Our Father among the Saints Basil the Great
Commemorates
The Mystical Supper
(Last Supper)
- institution
of Holy
Eucharist
of Great
and Holy
Friday
on Great
and Holy
Thursday
morning
Matins
Service of the
Twelve Gospels
or Passion Gospels
or Crucifixion Service
of Great
and Holy
Friday
on Great
and Holy
Thursday
evening

Matins is the Service of Forgiveness with Holy Mystery of Repentance and the Service of Anointing with Holy Oil with Holy Mystery of Holy Oil (Anointing with Holy Oil ) of Great and Holy Thursday, which is celebrated on Great and Holy Wednesday evening

  • Service of Forgiveness with the Holy Mystery of Repentance
  • Service of Anointing with Holy Oil with Holy Mystery of Holy Oil (Anointing with Holy Oil )

The Church offers us two Holy Mysteries of healing for our souls and bodies: Holy Mystery of Repentance and Holy Mystery of Holy Oil . These Holy Mysteries for the healing of soul and body are given to everyone because no one is perfect; all of us need Holy God's healing mercy and love.

Service of Forgiveness with the Holy Mystery of Repentance

  • Prayers of repentance.
  • Holy Mystery of Repentance or Forgiveness of Sin with individual confession. (A good confession should be part of our Lenten preparation for properly celebrating the Resurrectin of Christ.)

Service of Anointing with Holy Oil with Holy Mystery of Holy Oil (Anointing with Holy Oil )

On Wed., Jesus is anointed with oil as a prelude to His death so we are anointed in the service of Holy Oil.

  • Prayer Service over the oil.
  • Gospel is sung over the oil.
  • People Venerate the Gospel.
  • Holy Mystery of Holy Oil (Anointing with Holy Oil ) - Each person is annointed five times
    • Forehead
    • Palm of each hand
    • Back of each hand.
  • Priest gives holy Oil for the people to take home.

Restored and cleansed by the healing bestowed in these Holy Mysteries, we can approach the Holy Mystery of the Lord's Body and Blood on the day of His Resurrection as we should, "with fear of God, with faith and with love."

Holy Myron

The Patriarch consecrates Holy Myron (a special mixture of oil and spices) for all the Melkite Greek Catholic Churches. Holy Myron is used for annointing in the Holy Mysteries.

Liturgical Text

English Matins Text The Melkite Eparchy of Australia and New Zealand, a Microsoft Word .doc file

Liturgical Service on Web

Greek Catholic, Melkite Al-Bushra

Traditions

Great Lent is Forty Days.   Traditions of Great Lent and Holy Week Melkite Greek Catholic Church Eparchy of Newton

Images

Images of Great and Holy Thursday Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Eparchy of Newton, (Our Lady of the Annunciation (Al Bisharah) in Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States)
Images of Holy Week Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Eparchy of Newton, (Our Lady of the Annunciation (Al Bisharah) in Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States)

Pascha Cycle

Great and Holy Thursday is between Great and Holy Wednesday and Great and Holy Friday.

How to determine when Great and Holy Thursday occurs

A count back from the date of Pascha is made.


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