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Tuesday March 17, 2026 / March 4, 2026

Fourth Week of the Great Lent: Adoration of Cross. Tone seven.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan (475). primary
  2. Venerable Gerasimus, monk, of Vologda (1178).
  3. St. Daniel, prince of Moscow (1303).
  4. Blessed Basil (Basilko), prince of Rostov (1238).
  5. Saints of Pskov martyred by the Latins: Venerable Ioasaph of Snetogorsk Monastery and St. Basil of Mirozh Monastery (1299).
  6. Martyrs Paul, his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius, and Stratonicus, at Ptolemais in Syria (273).
  7. Venerable James the Faster of Phoenicia (Syria) (6th c.).
  8. Translation of the relics (938) of Martyr Wenceslaus, prince of the Czechs (935).
  9. St. Gregory, bishop of Constantia in Cyprus.
  10. New Hieromartyrs Archpriest Dimitry Ivanov of Kiev (1933) and Priest Vyacheslav (Leontiev) of Nizhegorod (1937).
  11. New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1938).
  12. St. Gregory, bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150).
  13. St. Julian, patriarch of Alexandria (189).
  14. St. Peter (Michurin), youth of Tobolsk (Siberia) (1820).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 25:1-9 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 9:8-17 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 12:8-22 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)