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Click here for the schedule of Holy Week and Pascha services at the Cathedral for 2024. The schedule begins with Lazarus Saturday and concludes with the Bright Week services after Pascha. It is printed in Arabic and English for your convenience. Confessions will be heard prior to and after Holy Week services, however, please come early in the week. No confessions will be heard before the Paschal Vigil on Saturday evening. Finally, there are three Pre-Sanctified Liturgies scheduled for Monday-Wednesday mornings of Holy Week at 9:00am. Monday and Wednesday's liturgy will be at St. Mary Church in Bay Ridge and Tuesday morning (along with all other services on those days and throughout Holy Week) will be at St. Nicholas. 

Schedule of 2024 Holy Week and Pascha Services

Join us the weekend of October 19-20, 2019 for a weekend of anniversaries and celebrations.  We will celebrate several anniversaries and occasions including the kick-off for both the 100th anniversary of our State Street Cathedral and the 125 anniversary of the founding of our community by St. Raphael of Brooklyn in 1895, both of which will take place in 2020. We will also celebrate Fr. Thomas’ 25th anniversary in the holy priesthood that Saturday evening and Fr. Adrian’s elevation to the dignity of Archpriest at the liturgy that Sunday. We will be hosting the fall meeting of the Archdiocese Board of Trustees and the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch that weekend and on the evening of Saturday night there will be a banquet in downtown Brooklyn at a new venue most of you have never been to, the top floor of the Brooklyn Law School with sweeping views of New York Harbor and Downtown Brooklyn. As of September 28, 2019, the banquet is sold out except for a few remaining sponsorship slots. Thank you to everyone for his support. 

The schedule of services for the weekend is as follows:

Saturday, October 19th at 5:30pm: Great Vespers with Metropolitan Joseph and our Antiochian Hierarchs in the Cathedral.

Sunday, October 20th: 

9:15am Orthros
10:30am Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and Elevation of Fr. Adrian Budica to the dignity of Archpriest. His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH and His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolampsk (Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church), along with our Antiochian hierarchs will preside at the service. 

It is with great joy we look forward to welcoming His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolampsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, who will represent His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia for our 125th anniversary inauguration on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral. On this day, we will inaugurate the beginning of the 125th anniversary year in which St. Raphael of Brooklyn arrived in New York from Russia in early November 1895 and began the Syro-Arab Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church. He would later be consecrated the first Orthodox bishop in America by the future St. Tikhon of Moscow and serve under St. Tikhon during his tenure in America. As such, our historical roots in this land are one with the Russian Orthodox Church and we welcome the participation of Metropolitan Hilarion in celebrating our common history together. Orthros that morning will begin at 9:15 and the Divine Liturgy at 10:30.

St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral
355 State Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(Between Hoyt and Bond Streets)

Братия и сестры!

С великой радостью извещаем, что в воскресенье, 20 октября 2019 года, мы ожидаем в нашем соборе Его Высокопреосвященство митрополита Волоколамского Илариона (Алфеева), председателя Отдела внешних церковных связей Русской Православной Церкви, который будет официально представлять Его Святейшество Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла на открытии торжеств по случаю 125-летия начала служения святителя Рафаила Бруклинского. В этот день мы вступаем в 125-й год с того момента, когда будущий святитель Рафаил прибыл в Нью-Йорк из России в начале ноября 1895 года и впоследствии учредил Сиро-арабскую миссию Русской Православной Церкви. Позднее он будет рукоположен во епископы святителем Тихоном (Белавиным) (первая православная архиерейская хиротония на нашей земле) и понесет служение в Америке под его началом. Таким образом, на американской земле нас и Русскую Православную Церковь связывают единые корни, и мы рады, что вместе с митрополитом Иларионом сможем засвидетельствовать общность нашего исторического пути.

Начало утрени в 9:15, Божественная Литургия в 10:30.

Свято-Николаевский Антиохийский Православный Собор
St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral
355 State Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(между улицами Хойт и Бонд)

Check out the new icons of St. Raphael of Brooklyn by clicking on the bookstore link on the left. They are reproductions of Cathedral originals.