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Wednesday March 04, 2026 / February 19, 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. Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphia (1st c.). primary
  2. St. Theodore of Sanaxar Monastery (1791).
  3. Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodotus of Adrianopolis (305-311).
  4. Venerables Eugene and Macarius, presbyters, confessors at Antioch (363).
  5. Venerable Dositheus of Palestine (6th c.), disciple of St. Abba Dorotheus.
  6. Venerable Rabulas of Samosata (530).
  7. New Martyr Demetrius(1942).
  8. Venerable Conon, abbot in Palestine (555).
  9. New Hieromartyr Nicetas of Epirus (1809).
  10. Venerable Philothea, nun-martyr, of Athens (1589) (Greek).
  11. St. Mesrop the Translator of Armenia (439).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 5:16-25 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 4:16-26 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 5:15-6:4 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)