Services

Our Normal Service Schedule

Saturdays

• 5:00 pm — Great Vespers
  Great Vespers is served on Saturday nights as the first service of the daily cycle of divine services. Because the liturgical day begins at sunset, Vespers is traditionally served in the early evening.

Sundays

• 9:30 am — Orthros
  Orthros (from Greek: morning, dawn) is celebrated before Divine Liturgy.
• 10:30 am — Divine Liturgy
  The primary worship service of the Orthodox Church. It contains the Liturgy of the Catechumens (the Liturgy of the Word) and the Liturgy of the Faithful (the Liturgy of the Eucharist), in which the gifts of bread and wine are offered and consecrated.

Full Service Calendar

For a listing of all upcoming services please visit our Cathedral Calendar.

Confession Schedule

• Saturdays After Vespers
• Thursdays during the Confession, Counsel, or Candle session

Communion

Only baptized/chrismated members of the Orthodox Church who have prepared may receive Holy Communion. Those previously baptized Orthodox who have since partaken of another communion should refrain from receiving until reconciled to the Church — please speak with an Orthodox priest. We invite all to partake of the blessed bread distributed at the dismissal.

Preparation includes prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and regular confession, AND being on time for the start of the service. Unless medically necessary, abstain from all food and drink from the previous evening. Pre-Communion prayers are on pages 204–208 in the red Service Book.

The Twelve Great Feasts

• September 8 — Nativity of the Theotokos
• September 14 — Elevation of the Holy Cross
• November 21 — Presentation of the Theotokos
• December 25 — Nativity of Christ (Christmas)
• January 6 — Theophany (Baptism of Christ)
• February 2 — Presentation of Christ
• March 25 — the Annunciation
• Sunday before Pascha — Palm Sunday
• Forty Days after Pascha — Ascension of Christ
• Fifty Days after Pascha — Pentecost
• August 6 — the Transfiguration
• August 15 — Dormition of the Theotokos

Pascha

The Feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ — Pascha (Easter) — is the greatest feast of the Orthodox Church, the “Feast of Feasts.” At St. George, Feast Day services are offered on either the eve or morning of the Feast. Please check our calendar or call the office for details.