During the first week of Great Lent, March 3-7, the full cycle of divine services was held in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. Leading the reading of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete in the evenings, as well as celebrating the Divine Liturgies of the Presanctified Gifts, was Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Luke of Syracuse.

Singing at the services was the Holy Trinity Seminary choir under the direction of Deacon Nicholas Kotar.

After the first week of Great Lent, one of strict fasting and long, penitential services, the brethren celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the triumph over the heresy of iconoclasm. Bishop Luke, abbot of the monastery and rector of Holy Trinity Seminary, celebrated Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning, March 9, co-served by the monastery clergy.

Liturgy was followed by the Rite of Orthodoxy. Bishop Luke and the clergy gathered in the middle of Holy Trinity Cathedral, as Archdeacon Paisios (Levakov) intoned the proclamations of the Rite, including the anathemas, each one followed by the chanting of "Anathema!", first by the clergy and followed by the choir. The anathemas included are those that were used in prerevolutionary Russia, as well as those proclaimed more recently by the Church, against those heresies which afflict the Church in modern times.

This was followed by the chanting of "Memory Eternal" to those pillars of Orthodoxy, our Holy Fathers as well as Orthodox monarchs, who defended Orthodoxy throughout the ages. This was followed by the intoning of "Many Years" to our hierarchs, who continue to proclaim the saving truths of Holy Orthodoxy, even today among so many difficulties.