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THE FIRST THREE DAYS OF GREAT LENT AT THE PATRIARCHATE

On Ash Monday and Tuesday, the Services of Matins, Hours and Vespers were held in the morning and the Service of the Great Compline in the afternoon, at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen. On Wednesday, of the first week of Lent, the Divine Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified gifts was celebrated in the same Church, with the participation in prayer of His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, and at the Horrendous Golgotha, led by His Eminence Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis.

From Secretariat-General