During Lent the Presanctified Liturgy service will be held from 8 – 9 in the morning – the remaining services in March will be held on:

Wednesday 18th

Friday 20th

Friday 27th

The Presanctified Liturgy (also known as the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts) is a church service celebrated for praise to God and the distribution of Holy Communion (“Holy Gifts”) on the weekdays of Great Lent. The Presanctified Liturgy takes the place of the Divine Liturgy because the festive, paschal nature of the Divine Liturgy is not in harmony with the more subdued, repentant spirit of Great Lent. It is a Eucharistic “synaxis” (church assembly) where the Body and Blood of Christ are consecrated the Sunday before.

This Liturgy consists of Vespers, prayers, prostrations, and Holy Communion. The Communion bread has already been consecrated (“presanctified”) and “intincted” (dipped in) the consecrated wine and reserved at the previous Sunday’s Divine Liturgy. Unconsecrated wine and hot water (zeon) are then added to the chalice.

The Presanctified Liturgy is offered to provide us the opportunity to receive Holy Communion more frequently during this most sacred time of repentance and spiritual transformation.