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Thursday March 26, 2026 / March 13, 2026

Fifth Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight.

Great Lent. Food with Oil

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Translation of the relics (846) of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829). primary
  2. Martyr Sabinus (Abibus) of Egypt (303).
  3. Martyrs Africanus, Publius, and Terence of Carthage (3rd c.).
  4. Martyr Alexander of Macedonia (305).
  5. Martyr Christina of Persia (4th c.).
  6. Venerable Aninas the Presbyter of the Euphrates.
  7. New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1919).
  8. New Hieromartyr Gregory priest (1921).
  9. New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1938).
  10. Hieromartyr Publius, bishop of Athens and disciple of St. Dionysius the Areopagite (2nd c.).
  11. St. Leander, bishop of Seville (596).
  12. New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), bishop of Izhevsk (1933).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 42:5-16 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 18:20-33 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 16:17-17:17 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)