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Thursday March 05, 2026 / February 20, 2026

Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone five.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Venerable Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (ca. 780). primary
  2. Abbot Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery martyred by the Lutherans: hieromonk Titus, schemamonk Tikhon, monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Silvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Simonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion, and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John (1578).
  3. St. Yaroslav the Wise (1054).
  4. Venerable Agatho, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (13th-l4th c.).
  5. Beheading of Venerable Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves (1570), and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom.
  6. Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342).
  7. Venerable Agatho, pope of Rome (682).
  8. New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1938).
  9. Venerable Bessarion the Great, wonderworker of Egypt (466) (Greek).
  10. St. Cindeus, bishop of Pisidia (Greek).
  11. Hieromartyr Eleutherius, bishop in Byzantium (2nd c.).
  12. St. Eleutherius, bishop of Tournai (531).
  13. St. Eucherius, bishop of Orleans (740).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 6:1-12 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 5:1-24 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 6:3-20 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)