CHICAGO, IL [DOM] – During the first week of Great and Holy Lent, March 18–22, His Eminence Archbishop Daniel of Chicago and the Midwest lead services at various diocesan communities in Chicago.
On Clean Monday, His Eminence read the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete at the Diocesan Cathedral, Holy Trinity Cathedral. Priest Alexander Koranda, Cathedral Dean, served Great Compline.
On the second day of the Great Fast, the Archbishop presided at St. George Cathedral. There he served with Priest Nikolai Lochmatow, Cathedral Dean. On the following day, March 20, the Archbishop was again at Holy Trinity Cathedral for the reading of the third section of the Great Canon.
Christ the Savior Church welcomed Archbishop Daniel on Clean Thursday. There the Archbishop read the fourth section of the Great Canon and prayed with Priest John Kennerk, Rector. Later that evening, His Eminence met with the catechumens of the parish.