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Friday April 03, 2026 / March 21, 2026

Sixth Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.

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 James the Confessor, bishop, of the Studium (late 8th c.). primary
  2. St. Enda of Aran, monk, earliest leader of Irish monas-ticism (530) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. St. Cyril, bishop of Catania (2nd c.).
  4. St. Thomas, patriarch of Constantinople (610).
  5. New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1931).
  6. New Martyr Archbishop Theodore Pozdeyev (1938).
  7. Venerable Seraphim Vyritsa (1949).
  8. Venerable Serapion, bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt, friend of St. Anthony the Great (358).
  9. Venerable Lupicinus, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains (480) (Gaul).
  10. Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome (Greek).
  11. St. Beryllus, bishop of Catania (2nd c.).
  12. St. Sophronius, abbot of the monastery of St. Theodosius (542).
  13. New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (1544).
  14. St. Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (542).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 66:10-24 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 49:33-50:26 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 31:8-31 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)