The Eucharist honors the seventh-century author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent . For New Calendar Orthodox, today also is the Annunciation of the Mother of God. It is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Orthodoxy. Jewish Rosh Chodesh Nisan. Special prayers are added for the new month of Nisan.
Women gather in the evening to mark the new moon.
The Rev. Msgr. James R. Tracy is celebrant, and the Rev. Joseph T. Szolack is homilist. Unitarian Universalist First public service of Imago Dei Metropolitan Community Church, which serves sexual minorities. Presbyterian 28th Anniversary Vespers. Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church's Senior Choir, the Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers and Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra perform Mozart's Solemn Vespers, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna.