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Saturday April 11, 2026 / March 29, 2026

Passion Week: Great Saturday, descent into Hades.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Calculated: Strict Fast (f2)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Martyr Mark, bishop of Arethusa (364), and with him Hieromartyr Cyril the Deacon of Heliopolis, and others, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (362). primary
  2. Venerable John, Anchorite of Egypt (4th c.).
  3. St. Eustathius (Eustace) the Confessor, bishop of Kios in Bithynia(9thc.).
  4. Venerables Jonah (1480) and Mark of the Pskov Caves.
  5. New Martyrs Priest Paul (Voinarsky), and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919).
  6. New Hieromartyr Michael priest(1933).
  7. St. Diadochus, bishop of Photike in Epirus (ca. 486).
  8. St. Eustasius, abbot of Luxeuil (7th c.).
  9. Sts. Gwynllw and Gwladys, parents of St. Cadoc.

Scripture

  • 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 - (Matins, Epistle)
  • Galatians 3:13-14 - (Matins, Epistle)
  • Matthew 27:62-66 - (Matins, Gospel)
  • Romans 6:3-11
  • Matthew 28:1-20