ST. THECLA ORTHODOX CHURCH
11510 Georgia Avenue, Suite LLA - Wheaton, MD 20902
(phone) 240-776-2959
MARCH 2025
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Feb 23 (Feb 10)
Sunday of the Dread Judgement (Meatfare)
8:45AM – Hours and Divine Liturgy

Meal Team Scouts
Feb 24 (Feb 11)
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
Feb 25 (Feb 12)
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
Feb 26 (Feb 13)
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
Feb 27 (Feb 14)
7:00 PM – Choir rehearsal
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
Feb 28 (Feb 15)
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
1 (Feb 16)
3:00PM Baptism
5:00PM Vigil
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
2 (Feb 17)
Cheesefare Sunday (Forgiveness Sunday): Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise. Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (†1612). Tone 3. 
8:45 AM – Hours and Divine Liturgy 

Meal Team #6
6:00 PM – Vespers with the Rite of Forgiveness
Fast: dairy, fish, wine, & oil
3 (Feb 18)
Clean Monday: Beginning of Great Lent. Tone 3. 
6:00 PM – Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
Fast
4 (Feb 19)
Clean Tuesday. Tone 3.
6:00 PM – Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
Fast
5 (Feb 20)
Clean Wednesday. Tone 3.
6:00 PM – Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
Fast
6 (Feb 21)
Clean Thursday. Tone 3.
6:00 PM – Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
Fast
7 (Feb 22)
Clean Friday. Tone 3.
 6:00 PM – Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Fast
8 (Feb 23)
2:00 PM – Jones Baptism
5:00PM Vigil
Fast: wine & oil
9 (Feb 24)
First Sunday of Great Lent: The Triumph of Orthodoxy. Tone 4
8:45AM – Hours and Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

Meal Team #3
Fast: wine & oil
10 (Feb 25)
Fast
11 (Feb 26)
Fast
12 (Feb 27)
7:00 PM – Meeting of the Parish Council
Fast
13 (Feb 28)
7:00 PM – Choir rehearsal
Fast
14 (Mar 1)
Friday of the Second Week of Lent. Tone 4 
6:00 PM – Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Fast
15 (Mar 2)
5:00PM Vigil
Fast: wine & oil
16 (Mar 3)
Second Sunday of Lent: St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica. Tone 5. 
8:45 AM – Hours and Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

Meal Team #4
Fast: wine & oil
17 (Mar 4)
Fast
18 (Mar 5)
Fast
19 (Mar 6)
Fast
20 (Mar 7)
7:00 PM – Choir rehearsal
Fast
21 (Mar 8)
Friday of the Third Week of Lent. Tone 5.
6:00 PM – Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Fast
22 (Mar 9)
Third Saturday of Lent. Commemoration of the Departed. The Holy Forty
Martyrs of Sebaste. Tone 5. 
8:45 AM – Matins, Hours, and Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Vigil
Fast: wine & oil
23 (Mar 10)
Third Sunday of Lent: Veneration of the Precious Cross. Tone 6. 
8:45 AM – Hours and Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

Meal Team #5
Fast: wine & oil
24 (Mar 11)
Fast
25 (Mar 12)
Fast
26 (Mar 13)
Fast
27 (Mar 14)
7:00 PM – Choir rehearsal
Fast
28 (Mar 15)
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Tone 6. 
6:00 PM – Vespers with the Liturgy of the

Presanctified Gifts
Fast
29 (Mar 16)
Fourth Saturday of Lent 
Commemoration of the Departed
8:40 AM – Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Vigil
Fast: wine & oil
30 (Mar 17)
Fourth Sunday of Lent; Venerable John Climacus (of the Ladder). Tone 7.
8:45 AM – Hours and Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

Meal Team #2
Fast: wine & oil
31 (Mar 18)
Fast
Apr 1 (Mar 19)
Fast
Apr 2 (Mar 20)
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent.
6:00 PM – Matins with the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and the life of Mary of Egypt, in two parts
Fast
Apr 3 (Mar 21)
Fast
Apr 4 (Mar 22)
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Tone 7.
6:00 PM – Vespers with the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Fast
Apr 5 (Mar 23)

Fifth Saturday of Lent

Saturday of the Akathist Hymn

8:40 AM – Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Vigil
Fast: wine & oil
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