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Friday March 27, 2026 / March 14, 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. Venerable Benedict of Nursia, abbot (543). primary
  2. St. Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1353).
  3. St. Rostislav-Michael, prince of Kiev (1167).
  4. St. Euschemon, bishop of Lampsacus (9th c.).
  5. Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore ("Feodorovskaya") (1613).
  6. Martyr Eustathius and his company at Carrhae, Mesopotamia (741).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 45:11-17 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 22:1-18 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 17:17-18:5 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)