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Tuesday March 24, 2026 / March 11, 2026

Fifth Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. St. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (638). primary
  2. Venerable Oengus the Culdee, compiler of first Irish martyrology (824) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod, wonderwoker (1458).
  4. Venerable Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th c.).
  5. Hieromartyr Pionius of Smyrna and those with him: Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus and Sabina (250).
  6. Translation of the relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium to Constantinople (250).
  7. St. Sophronius of Vratsa (1815) (Bulgaria).
  8. Venerable Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917).
  9. Venerable Patrikius confessor (1933).
  10. New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1937).
  11. Venerable George, abbot of Sinai, brother of St. John Climacus (7th c.).
  12. Venerable John Moskhos (622).
  13. Venerable George the New, wonderworker of Constantinople (970) (Greek).
  14. St. Theodora, queen of Arta, wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (1275) (Greek).
  15. Hieromartyr Eulogius, metropolitan of Cordova (859).
  16. Martyrs Trophimus and Thalus of Laodicea (300) (Greek).
  17. Hieromartyr Constantine, in Kintyre.

Scripture

  • Isaiah 40:18-31 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 15:1-15 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 15:7-19 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)