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Monday April 06, 2026 / March 24, 2026

Passion Week: Great Monday.

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 Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.). primary
  2. St. Artemon, bishop of Seleucia (1st c.). primary
  3. St. Dunchad, abbot of Iona. westernBritain and Ireland
  4. Forefeast of the Annunciation.
  5. Venerable Zachariah, faster of the Kiev Caves (13th c.).
  6. Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan (1552).
  7. Venerable James the Confessor, bishop of Catania (802-811).
  8. "The Clouded Mount" Icon of the Mother of God.
  9. New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1918).
  10. New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1920).
  11. Hieromartyr Parthenius, patriarch of Constantinople (1657).
  12. St. Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1948) (Greek).
  13. Eight Martyrs of Caesarea in Palestine (Greek).
  14. Venerable Martin of Thebes, monk (Greek).
  15. St. Thomas, abbot of the monastery of St. Euthymius (542).
  16. St. Severus of Catania (802-811).
  17. St. Artemius, bishop of Thessalonica.

Scripture

  • Matthew 21:18-43 - (Bridegroom Matins Gospel)
  • Matthew 24:3-35 - (Gospel)