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Sunday March 01, 2026 / February 16, 2026

First Sunday of the Great Lent: Triumph of Orthodoxy. Tone five.

Great Lent. Food with Oil

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. "Cyprus" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Staromniy, Moscow region (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent). primary
  2. Martyrs Pamphilus presbyter, Valens deacon, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palestine (307-309). primary
  3. Venerable Marutha, bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis, and others with him in Mesopotamia (422).
  4. St. Macarius, metropolitan of Moscow, apostle to the Altai (1926).
  5. Synaxis of All Saints of Novosibirsk Metropolia.
  6. New Hieromartyrs Priests Elias Chetverukhin (1934) of Moscow and Peter Lagov (1931).
  7. New Hieromartyr Paul priest (1938).
  8. St. Flavian, Archbishop of Antioch (381-404).
  9. New Monk-martyr Romanus of Carpenision, who suffered at Constantinople (1694) (Greek).
  10. St. Mary the New of Byzia in Thrace (9th c.).
  11. St. Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky (1869).

Scripture

  • Luke 24:12-35 - (5th Matins Gospel)
  • Hebrews 11:24-26, 11:32-12:2
  • John 1:43-51