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Wednesday February 25, 2026 / February 12, 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. Iveron Icon (Moscow) of the Most Holy Theotokos (9th c.). primary
  2. St. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch (381). primary
  3. St. Ethilwald of Lindisfarne (740) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  4. St. Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of all Russia (1378).
  5. Venerable Mary, nun (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk, at Alexandria (6th c.).
  6. St. Anthony II, patriarch of Constantinople (895).
  7. Saint Meletios of Lardos, Founder of Ypseni Monastery (19th c.).
  8. St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840).
  9. New Hieromartyr Alexius (Buy), bishop of Voronezh (1930).
  10. New Martyr Mitrophan, archpriest (1931).
  11. Venerable Bassian, disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich and abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery, Uglich (1509).
  12. Callia, righteous.
  13. Venerable Gertrude of Nijvel, abbess (659) (Neth.).
  14. New Martyr Chrestos at Constantinople (1748) (Greek).
  15. Martyrs Saturnius and Plotonus (Greek).
  16. Hieromartyr Urban us, bishop of Rome (223-230).
  17. Holy Fathers Prokhore the Georgian (11th c.), Luka (Mukhaidze) of Jerusalem (1277), Nikoloz Dvali (1314), аnd the Holy Fathers of the Georgian Monasteries in Jerusalem (Georgia).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 2:3-11 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 1:24-2:3 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 2:1-22 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)