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Church Calendar & Upcoming Events
Lazarus Saturday – Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesLazarus Saturday – Great Vespers
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPalm Sunday – Orthros
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPalm Sunday – Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesPalm Sunday – Bridegroom Orthros for Holy Monday
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesIn commemoration of the Ten Virgins from the Holy Gospel of Matthew 25:1-13
Holy Monday – Presanctified Divine Liturgy
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesHoly Monday – Bridegroom Orthros for Holy Tuesday
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesIn commemoration of the Ten Virgins from the Holy Gospel of Matthew 25:1-13
Holy Tuesday – Presanctified Divine Liturgy
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesHoly Tuesday – Bridegroom Orthros for Holy Wednesday
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesIn commemoration of the anointing of our Lord with myrrh by the woman in Bethany, in the house of Simon, the leper
Holy Wednesday – Presanctified Divine Liturgy
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesHoly Wednesday – Holy Unction Service
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesThe Sacrament of Holy Unction will be administered to all the Faithful present in preparation for receiving Holy Communion, especially for the next day, Holy Thursday. The Holy Oil is […]
Holy Thursday – Orthros
Sts. Constantine and Helen 1225 E Rosemeade Pkwy, Carrollton, TX, United StatesDivine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication or repentance. The Eastern Orthodox church follows the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom which is the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine rite.
It is named after its core part, the anaphora attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople in the 5th century. In Constantinople, it was refined and beautified under John’s guidance as Archbishop (398–404).
As a divine liturgy of the Church of Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia, it became over time the usual divine liturgy in the churches within the Byzantine Empire. Just two divine liturgies (aside from the presanctified), those of Saints John and Basil the Great, became the norm in the Byzantine Church by the end of the reign of Justinian I.
After the Quinsext Council and the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Theodore Balasamon, the Byzantine Rite became the only rite in the Eastern Orthodox Church, remaining so until the 19th and 20th Century re-introduction by certain jurisdictions of Western Rites.
The Divine Liturgy is the common action of Orthodox Christians officially gathered to constitute the Orthodox Church. It is the action of the Church assembled by God in order to be together in one community to worship, to pray, to sing, to hear God’s Word, to be instructed in God’s commandments, to offer itself with thanksgiving in Christ to God the Father, and to have the living experience of God’s eternal kingdom through communion with the same Christ Who is present in his people by the Holy Spirit.