Services of the first week of Great Lent
On 10/23 February, Clean Monday, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, went to the Holy Church of the Saints, Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen, and presided from the throne, holding the pastoral staff, at the Service of the Great Compline with the chanting of the Great Canon.
On the first Wednesday of the Holy and Great Lent, 12/25 February 2026, the first Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was celebrated:
- At the Patriarchal and Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, with His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, presiding, and with the Hierarchs and other Fathers of the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood in prayer, together with the students of the Patriarchal School of Zion and pilgrims. The chanting was led by the chief cantor of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Deacon Efstathios, along with the students of the School.
- The Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was likewise celebrated at the Horrendous Golgotha by the Elder Sacristan, His Eminence Archbishop Isidoros of Hierapolis, with nuns and a large number of pilgrims participating in prayer.
From the Chief Secretariat

en.jerusalem-patriarchate.info
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