On Saturday, March 16, Great Lenten services were held at the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City.

Hours were read and Divine Liturgy celebrated for the Saturday of the Holy Great-Martyr Theodore the Tyro, officiated by Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan and co-served by Synodal clergy. The Synodal choir sang Liturgy under the direction of Peter Fekula. Upon conclusion of the service, His Grace addressed the gathered faithful with a sermon about the martyric death and miraculous appearance of St. Theodore.

That evening, Bishop Nicholas served a panihida for the ever-memorable Metropolitan Laurus (Škurla; +2008) and newly reposed Bishop Marcellus of Tsarskoe Selo.