Orthocal

Tuesday March 10, 2026 / February 25, 2026

Third Week of the Great Lent. Tone six.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. St. Tarasius, archbishop of Constantinople (806). primary
  2. St. Ethelbert, king of Kent (616) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Venerable Walburga, abbess of Heidenheim (779) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  4. New Hieromartyr Alexander, priest, Virgin-Martyr Mstislava (1938).
  5. New Hieromartyr Priest Leo Korobczuk of Laskov (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944).
  6. New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1945).
  7. Hieromartyr Reginus, bishop of the isle of Skopelos (355).
  8. Venerable Polycarp.
  9. Martyr Anthony.
  10. Venerables Erasmus and Paphnutius of Kephala, monks, contemporaries of St. Anthony the Great (4th c.).
  11. Martyrs Alexander at Marcionopolis (305) and Hypatius.
  12. St. Maecellus, bishop of Apamea in Syria (Greek).
  13. St. Theodore, fool-for-Chist (Greek).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 9:9-10:4 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 7:1-5 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 8:32-9:11 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)