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Tuesday February 24, 2026 / February 11, 2026

First Week of the Great Lent. Tone four.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Calculated: Strict Fast (f2)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Hieromartyr Blaise, bishop of Sebaste (316). primary
  2. St. Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork (Ireland) (7th c.) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Venerable Caedmon of Whitby, monk (680) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  4. Venerable Demetrius, monk of Priluki (Vologda) (1392).
  5. St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), prince and wonderworker of Pskov (1138).
  6. Venerable Cassian the Barefoot (in the world 'Kosmas'), ascetic of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (1532)
  7. St. Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (867).
  8. Venerable George (Kratovac) the Greatmartyr of Serbia (Greek).
  9. Hieromartyr Lucius of Adrianopolis in Thrace (348).
  10. St. Benedict of Aniane (821) (Gaul).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 1:19-2:3 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 1:14-23 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 1:20-33 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)