Our parish will have Matins at 6.00pm on Sunday 5 April and at 7.00pm on Tuesday 7 April and Wednesday 8 April.  On Monday and Tuesday 6-7 April we will have services for the Great Feast of the Annunciation of the Mother of God.  The Hours, Typika and Vespers with Divine Liturgy will be served from 8.00am on Great Thursday, 9 April.  On Great Friday, 10 April, Vespers with the bringing out of the Shroud of Christ will be served at 12.00pm and Matins with Lamentations before the Tomb of Christ will be served at 6.30pm.  On Great Saturday, 11 April, Hours, Typika and Vespers with Divine Liturgy will be served from 8.00am.  At 11.00am on Sunday 12 April we will have the Paschal Hours and Vespers with the blessing of easter eggs and cakes.  This year, the midnight Paschal service will be at Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Wallsend (Newcastle) and there will be no early Paschal service in Gosford.  The only opportunity for the blessing of easter baskets in our parish this year will be on the morning of Sunday 12 April after Paschal Vespers.