Regular services

Welcome to the Services

The Monastery's Divine Services are open to everyone. You can also come to the church just for a moment to pray, both during services and at other opening hours of the churches. 

Two Divine Services are held daily in the main church. On weekdays, the morning begins with the Midnight Office and Matins, and concludes with a combination of the Ninth Hour, Vespers, and Small Compline. On Saturdays and the eves of feast days, the evening concludes with an All-Night Vigil, and on Sundays, with Vespers and an Akathist. There are also numerous annual exceptions to the regular services – for example, during Orthodox Church feasts and fasting periods.

During the summer months, a half-hour moleben, or prayer service, is held daily once a day, with the exception of some feast days. On weekdays, the prayer service is held in the main church, and on weekends, in the old church. During winter, no services are held in the old church.

Chapels are primarily intended for private devotion, but in each chapel, a water blessing service is held as their temple feast, and at least one liturgy is celebrated during the summer season on separately announced days. In the cemetery chapel, however, memorial services (panikhidas) and burial services can be performed if there are few mourners and the weather permits.

In the monastery churches, baptisms, burials, and receptions into the Orthodox Church are performed upon request, but not marriages. Guests have the opportunity, if needed, for spiritual counseling with the monastery clergy.

Regular Services

Weekdays
06.00 Midnight Service, Matins and First Hour (on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Liturgy around 07.00 after Matins)
18.00 Ninth Hour, Vespers and Small Compline (on Fridays, the Three Canons are read during Small Compline)

Saturdays
06.00 Midnight Service, Matins and Liturgy
12.00 Moleben
18.00 Vigil

Sundays
09.00 Third Hour and Liturgy
18.00 Vespers, Three Canons and Akathist

During Great Lent
Weekdays

06.00 Midnight Service, Matins and First Hour
18.00 Mon, Tue, Thu, Ninth Lenten Hour, Vespers, Great Compline
18.00 Wed, Fri, Ninth Lenten Hour, Hours Service, Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

Saturdays
06.00 Midnight Service, Matins and Liturgy
12:00 Moleben
18.00 Vigil

Sundays
09.00 Third Hour and Liturgy
18.00 Ninth Hour, Vespers, Small Compline and Akathist