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Friday February 27, 2026 / February 14, 2026

First Week of the Great Lent. Tone four.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Venerable Auxentius, monk of Bithynia (470). primary
  2. St. Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, teacher of the Slavs (869).
  3. Venerable Isaac, recluse of the Kiev Caves (1090).
  4. 12 Greek Master-Builders of the Dormition Cathedral in the Lavra of the Kievan Caves (11th C).
  5. Translation of the relics of Prince-martyr Michael and his counselor, St. Theodore of Chernigov (1578).
  6. Venerable Maron, hermit of Syria (423).
  7. St. Abraham, bishop of Charres in Mesopotamia (ca. 423).
  8. St. Ilarion the Georgian of Imeretia and Mt. Athos (1854) (Georgia).
  9. St. Raphael, bishop of Brooklyn (1915).
  10. New Hieromartyr Onisimus bishop of Tula (1937).
  11. New Hieromartyr Tryphon deacon (1938).
  12. Hieromartyr Philemon, bishop of Gaza.
  13. New Martyr George the Tailor of Mitylene, at Constantinople (1693) (Greek).
  14. New Martyr Nicholas of Corinth (1554) (Greek).
  15. St. Peter, patriarch of Alexandria (380).
  16. New Monk-martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 3:1-14 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 2:20-3:20 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 3:19-34 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)