On Monday, March 14, the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, His Grace Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk led the services for the first day of Great Lent in St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York City. On Monday morning, His Grace prayed in the altar during the Lenten Hours, Typica and Vespers. 

That evening, Bishop John led the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete.