Lenten schedule of church services for Great Lent 2026, listing dates, times, and types of services, with purple accents and a church symbol at the top right.

Great Lent

Schedule of religious services for Holy Week 2026, listing dates and times for various liturgies and ceremonies, with a purple and white color theme and a church logo in the upper right corner.

Sundays of

Great Lent

Eastern Orthodox Christian icon of the Holy Eucharist, featuring the Virgin Mary with Jesus, surrounded by saints and religious figures against a gold background.

Sunday of Orthodoxy

This Sunday celebrates the triumph of the true faith through the restoration of the holy icons in 843, after the end of the Iconoclast controversy. It proclaims the victory of right worship over heresy, of light over darkness, and of truth over falsehood.

Religious icon of a saint, seated and reading a book, with a halo around his head, surrounded by stylized natural elements such as trees and rocks, with Greek text in the upper left corner.

St. Gregory Palamas

This Sunday honors St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, whose teaching on hesychasm and the uncreated energies of God was formally vindicated in the 14th century as a “second Triumph of Orthodoxy.” It emphasizes inner prayer of the heart and the reality of deification by God’s grace in the life of the faithful.

Religious icon painting of the elevation of the Holy Cross, showing a central figure holding a large wooden cross, surrounded by saints and people.

Veneration of the Holy Cross

In the middle of Lent, the Cross is brought out for veneration as a sign of Christ’s victory and as a source of strength for the faithful on their Lenten journey. It reminds believers of the Lord’s Passion to come and calls each Christian to deny himself, take up his personal cross, and follow Christ.

A religious icon depicting souls ascending to heaven, guided by angels and saints ascending a staircase, while demons and souls are shown falling or being pulled down. The background is gold with Greek inscriptions.

St. John of the Ladder

This Sunday commemorates St. John Climacus (of the Ladder), author of “The Ladder of Divine Ascent,” and holds up his teaching on ascetic struggle as a guide for Lent. It stresses gradual spiritual ascent through repentance, humility, and the fight against the passions.

A central icon of Saint Mary of Egypt, surrounded by smaller scenes depicting biblical events, all with gold backgrounds and Cyrillic text.

St. Mary of Egypt

The last Sunday of Great Lent commemorates St. Mary of Egypt as a model of deep repentance and radical transformation by God’s mercy. It underscores that no sin is beyond forgiveness when met with sincere repentance, perseverance, and a life of holiness.