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Wednesday March 25, 2026 / March 12, 2026

Fifth Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Calculated: Strict Fast (f2)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane (818). primary
  2. St. Alphege, bishop of Winchester, England (951) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron (1500 B.C.).
  4. St. Gregory the Dialogist, pope of Rome (604).
  5. Venerable Symeon the New Theologian (1022) and his elder Symeon the Reverent of the Studium (987).
  6. The Lydda Icon of the Mother of God Not-Made-by-Hands (1st c.).
  7. St. Alexander confessor priest (1933).
  8. New Hieromartyrs John, Constantine priests, New Hieromartyr Vladimir (1938).
  9. New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1943).
  10. Righteous Aaron the High Priest, brother of Prophet Moses the God-Seer.
  11. Venerable Cyrus, monk of Alexandria (6th c.).
  12. St. Paul, bishop of Leon in Brittany (572).
  13. St. Nicodemus of Mammola in Calabria (990).
  14. Restoration of the Autocephaly of the Georgian Apostolic Church (1917) (Georgia).
  15. St. Demetre the Devoted, King of Georgia (1289) (Georgia).
  16. St. Theoctistus Dragutin of Serbia (1316).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 41:4-14 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 17:1-9 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 15:20-16:9 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)