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Sunday February 22, 2026 / February 9, 2026

The Sunday of Forgiveness. Tone four.

Cheesefare Sunday. Meat is excluded

Calculated: Meat is excluded (f7)

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Feasts

  • Forgiveness Sunday

Saints

  1. Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch (ca. 257). primary
  2. Uncovering of the relics (1805) of St. Innocent of Irkutsk (1731). primary
  3. Uncovering of the relics of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus (1992). primary
  4. St. Teilo, bishop (Llandaff in Wales) (6th c.) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  5. Venerable Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves (13th c.).
  6. Venerables Gennadius (1516) and Nicephorus (1557), monks, of Vazhe Lake (Vologda).
  7. Hieromartyrs Marcellus, bishop of Sicily; Philagrius, bishop of Cyprus; and Pancratius, bishop of Taormina; disciples of Apostle Peter (1st c.).
  8. New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1930).
  9. New Hieromartyr John priest (1938).
  10. Venerables Aemilianus and Bracchio of Tours (6th c.) (Gaul).
  11. Martyr Apollonias of Alexandria (249).
  12. St. Romanus the Wonderworker of Cilicia (5th c.).
  13. Hieromartyr Peter Damascene, bishop of Damascus (743).

Scripture

  • Luke 24:1-12 - (4th Matins Gospel)
  • Romans 13:11-14:4
  • Matthew 6:14-21