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Monday March 02, 2026 / February 17, 2026

Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone five.

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

Calculated: Strict Fast (f2)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. St. Hermogenes, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1612). primary
  2. St. Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne (661) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro (306).
  4. Venerable Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves (13th c.).
  5. St. Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st c.).
  6. Uncovering of the relics (867-869) of Martyr Menas the Melodius of Alexandria (ca. 313).
  7. St. Nicholas (Planas), priest in Athens (1932).
  8. New Hieromartyrs Michael, Paul priests (1938).
  9. Virgin-martyr Anna (1940).
  10. St. Auxibius, bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102) (Greek).
  11. New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795) (Greek).
  12. Emperor Marcian (457) and Pulcheria, his wife (453), and the commemoration of the dedication of the Great Church in Constantinople (Greek).
  13. Venerable Theodosius the Bulgarian and his disciple Venerable Romanus, monks, of Turnovo (1362) (Bulgaria).
  14. New Martyr Michael Mavroeidis of Adrianople (1490).
  15. Holy Hieromartyr Theodore of Adjara, who suffered under the Turks on Mt. Athos (19th c.) (Georgia).
  16. St. Barnabas, elder of the Gethsemane Skete of St. Sergius Lavra (1906).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 4:2-5:7 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 3:21-4:7 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 3:34-4:22 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)