Lectionary Guide
Great Lent
BACK TO HUBGreat Lent is a 50-day period of prayer, fasting, and repentance. We follow the miracles of our Lord—from the wedding at Cana through the healings of the leper, the paralytic, and the blind man—using these signs as milestones for our own spiritual healing as we approach Passion Week and the joy of the Resurrection.
First Monday of Great Lent
First Tuesday of Great Lent
First Wednesday of Great Lent
First Thursday of Great Lent
First Friday of Great Lent
First Saturday of Great Lent
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
HOLY QURBANA
Second Sunday of Great Lent (Lepers’ Sunday)
The Leper's Sunday (Garbo). Healing power of Christ's touch and our need for spiritual cleansing.
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Second Monday of Great Lent
Second Tuesday of Great Lent
Second Wednesday of Great Lent
Second Thursday of Great Lent
Second Friday of Great Lent
Second Saturday of Great Lent
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Third Sunday of Great Lent (Palsy Sunday)
The Paralytic’s Sunday (M'shario). Commemorates the healing of the man lowered through the roof.
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Third Monday of Great Lent
Third Tuesday of Great Lent
Third Wednesday of Great Lent
Third Thursday of Great Lent
Third Friday of Great Lent
Third Saturday of Great Lent
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent (Canaanite woman)
The Canaanite Woman (Knanaitho). A lesson in persistent faith and humility.
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
HOLY QURBANA
Fourth Monday of Great Lent
Fourth Tuesday of Great Lent
Fourth Wednesday of Great Lent (Mid Lent)
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Fourth Thursday of Great Lent
Fourth Friday of Great Lent
Fourth Saturday of Great Lent
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Fifth Sunday of Great Lent (Kpiptho/Crippled Woman)
The Good Samaritan / The Crippled Woman (K'phiptho). Compassion and healing.
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
HOLY QURBANA
Fifth Monday of Great Lent
Fifth Tuesday of Great Lent
Fifth Wednesday of Great Lent
Fifth Thursday of Great Lent
Fifth Friday of Great Lent
Fifth Saturday of Great Lent
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Sixth Sunday of Great Lent (Catholicate Day)
The Blind Man’s Sunday (Samio). Inviting us to seek the 'True Light'.
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Monday before Hosanna
Tuesday before Hosanna
Wednesday before Hosanna
Thursday before Hosanna
Friday before Hosanna (40th Friday)
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Saturday before Hosanna (Lazarus’ Saturday)
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Memory of Forty Martyrs (9th March, if it is a Saturday or Sunday. Otherwise on the Saturday after 9th)
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Annunciation to St. Mary (25th March)
We celebrate the Feast of Annunciation to St. Mary twice a year. On the 3rd Sunday after Koodhosh Eetho and on March 25th. Holy Eucharist must be celebrated on this day even if it comes during the Great Lent, during the Passion Week or on Good Friday. (The Holy Eucharist is not celebrated during the Great Lent days except all Saturdays and Sundays, Wednesday of Mid Lent, 40th Friday, and Maundy Thursday during the Passion week.)
EVENING
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
Hosanna/Palm Sunday – (Boys’ and Girl’s Day)
The triumphal entry of our Lord into Jerusalem. Carrying palm branches and crying 'Hosanna'.
EVENING
MIDNIGHT
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
PROCESSION
(at the Western Entrance)
For the Blessing of the Palm leaves
Monday of the Passion Week
EVENING
MIDNIGHT
First Qaumo
Second Qaumo
Vadhe Dhalmeeno
Third Qaumo
Tuesday of the Passion Week
EVENING
MIDNIGHT
First Qaumo
Second Qaumo
Third Qaumo
MORNING
Third Hour (9 a.m.)
Noon (12 p.m)
Ninth Hour (3 p.m.)
Ninth Hour (3 p.m.)
Wednesday of the Passion Week
EVENING
MIDNIGHT
MORNING
Third Hour (9 a.m.)
Noon
Ninth Hour (3 p.m.)
Passover (Maundy Thursday)
EVENING
MIDNIGHT
MORNING
Third Hour (9 a.m.)
Noon (12 p.m.)
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA
HOLY QURBANA
Good Friday
EVENING
MIDNIGHT
MORNING
Third Hour (9 a.m.)
Noon (12 p.m.)
Ninth Hour (3 p.m.)
Veneration of the Holy Cross
Gospel Saturday (Saturday of Good Tidings)
MORNING
BEFORE HOLY QURBANA