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After two years of no Easter celebration this year will be as follows.
Please be sensible and wear masks in church and around crowds of people.
SCHEDULE OF THE HOLY CEREMONIES OF THE HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
On Palm Sunday, at 8 am, a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy will be celebrated in the Holy Temple of Agios Dionysios. On the same day, at 7.30 pm, in the same Temple, the Bridegroom Sequence will be performed.
On Holy Tuesday, at 7.30 pm, the Bridegroom Sequence will be held at the Holy Metropolitan Church.
On Holy Wednesday, at 4 pm, the Mystery of the Eucharist will be performed at the General Hospital of Zakynthos at 6.30 pm. The Holy Eucharist will be performed in the Holy Temple of Agios Dionysios.
On Holy Thursday, at 8 a.m., the Divine Liturgy of the Great Kingdom will be celebrated in the Holy Metropolitan Church of Agios Nikolaos. On the same day, at 7 pm, in the Holy Temple of Agios Dionysios, the Orthros Sequence of Good Friday (Agia Pathi) will be performed.
On Good Friday, at 8 a.m., the procession of the Great Hours will take place in the Holy Temple of Agios Dionysios and then, at 10.15 a.m., the Vespers (Apocalypse).
• On the same day, at 2 pm, the official Liturgy of the Crucified in the city, according to the Zakynthian Standard, will take place with enthusiasm and magnificence from the Church of Agios Nikolaos of Molos (Solomos Square).
• On the same day, at 7.30 pm, the Sequence of Orthros of Holy Saturday (Epitaph Mourning) will be performed in the Holy Temple of Agios Dionysios.
On Holy Saturday, at 2 am , the procession of the Orthros of Holy Saturday (Epitaph Mourning) will take place in the Holy Metropolitan Church of Agios Nikolaos, and then at 04.15 the official Litany of the Epitaph will take place in the city. The return of the procession to the Temple will be followed by the Vespers of Holy Saturday, the first Resurrection (Gloria) and the Divine Liturgy of the Great Kingdom.
• On the same day, at 11 pm, the Orthros Sequence will be held at the Holy Metropolitan Church of Agios Nikolaos, at 11.45 the Holy Procession will start from the Holy Temple for the Resurrection Sequence in Agios Markos Square. Then in the above Temple the Resurrection Hierarchical Divine Liturgy will be performed, which will end at 01.30 in the morning.
On Easter Sunday, at 8 am, a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy will be celebrated in the Holy Temple of Agios Dionysios.
On the same day, at 7.30 pm, it will be performed at the Holy Temple of Ag. Lazarus of the city, the Vespers of Easter (Love) and then the procession of the Holy Icons of the Resurrection and the Most Holy Theotokos of Galanousa.
On Easter Monday, at 8 p.m. The procession of the Holy Icons of the Resurrection and the Most Holy Theotokos of Laurentaina will take place from the Holy Temple of Agios Nikolaos Psilomatos to the Holy Temple of the Holy Trinity.
In all the above Holy Communions and Ceremonies, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Zakynthos Mr. ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ Δ΄.
In the above Holy Communions and Ceremonies, the PEOPLE AND THE PRINCIPLES are invited to attend, according to the established order.
The groups outside the Holy Temple, in return for the regulated prices, will be Scout and Driver Departments, delegations of Primary Schools, Gymnasiums, Lyceums and Vocational Schools, the Philharmonic of the Municipality of Zakynthos and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Alyika.
The general order of the factions will be the Office of Physical Education of Zakynthos.
Eidesimol is appointed Ecclesiastical Rituals. Elder of the Ecumenical Throne Panagiotis Kapodistrias, General Hierarchical Commissioner of I.M.Z. and Aidesimol. First Elder Charalambos Kypriotis, Hierarchical Commissioner of Zakynthos.
Warm request: Messrs. guests and the faithful during the Litany of the Crucified and the Epitaph are asked to dress respectfully and men to wear a black tie.
Source Imera
