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Sunday March 08, 2026 / February 23, 2026

Second Sunday of the Great Lent. Tone six.

Great Lent. Food with Oil

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. St. Gregory Palamas the Archbishop of Thessalonica (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent). primary
  2. Synaxis of all Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent). primary
  3. Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167). primary
  4. Venerable Polycarp, monk, of Briansk (1620-21).
  5. Venerables John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian desert (5th c.).
  6. Venerable Alexander, founder of the order of the Unsleeping Ones (430).
  7. New Hieromartyrs Alexis, Nicholas priests and Martyr Sergius (1938).
  8. Uncovering of the relics (1998) St Matrona the Blind of Moscow (1952).
  9. Venerable Moses, monk, of White Lake (1480).
  10. Venerable Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian (372) (Greek).
  11. Venerable Damian of Esphigmenou, Mt. Athos (1280) (Greek).
  12. New Monk-martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568) (Greek).
  13. St. John the Harvester of Stylos in Calabria (11th c.).
  14. Venerable Cosmas of Zographou, Mt. Athos (1281).
  15. New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese (1618).
  16. St. Nazarius, abbot of Valaam (1809).
  17. St. Mildburga, abbess of Much Wenlock..
  18. Martyr Clement (Greek).
  19. Martyr Thea (Greek).

Scripture

  • Luke 24:36-53 - (6th Matins Gospel)
  • Hebrews 1:10-2:3
  • Hebrews 7:26-8:2 - (Saint)
  • Mark 2:1-12
  • John 10:9-16 - (Saint)