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Thursday April 02, 2026 / March 20, 2026

Sixth Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St.Sabbas: Venerables John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796). primary
  2. St. Wulfram, missionary (703) (Neth.). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, bishop (687) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  4. Suffering of Venerable Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake (Valaam) (1612).
  5. Martyr Photina (Fatima, Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman and her sons: Martyrs Victor named Photinos, and Josiah with Anatolia, Photo, Photida, Paraskeva, Kyriakia, Domnina and Sebastian (66).
  6. Seven Virgin-martyrs of Amisus (Samsun): Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (310).
  7. St. Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813).
  8. New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1918).
  9. New Hieromartyr Basil deacon (1938).
  10. New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas Holz of Novosiolki (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944).
  11. New Martyr Myron of Crete (1793).
  12. St. Martin of Braga in Iberia (580).
  13. Righteous Abel, first martyr in history of mankind.
  14. St. Austreigiselis, bishop of Bourges (624) (Neth.).
  15. Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, who suffered at Jerusalem (691).
  16. St. Archil II, king of Georgia (744).
  17. St. Herbert, hermit of Derwentwater.
  18. Martyrs Rodion, Aquila the Eparch, Longinus, and Emmanuel (Greek).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 65:8-16 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 46:1-7 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 23:15-24:5 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)