“When a bad or gloomy thought threatens to afflict you, don’t fight it. Open your arms to Christ’s Love and He will embrace you. Then it will vanish by itself.” Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia #Jesus #love #thoughts
Wednesday March 4, 2026 / February 19, 2026 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone five.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphia (1st c.).St. Theodore of Sanaxar Monastery (1791).New Martyr Demetrius(1942).Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodotus of Adrianopolis (305-311).Venerables Eugene and Macarius, presbyters, confessors at Antioch (363).Venerable Dositheus of Palestine (6th c.), disciple
Tuesday March 3, 2026 / February 18, 2026 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone five.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil St. Leo the Great, pope of Rome (461).New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Medvedsky) (1932) priest and Benjamin hieromonk (1938).Commemoration of the New Martyrs who suffered during the “Holy Night” in
“Many think that the saints are far from us. But they are far from those who distance themselves from them, and very close to those who keep the commandments of Christ and have the grace of the Holy Spirit. In the heavens, all things are moved by the Holy Spirit.
Monday March 2, 2026 / February 17, 2026 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone five.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro (306).St. Hermogenes, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1612).St. Nicholas (Planas), priest in Athens (1932).New Hieromartyrs Michael, Paul priests (1938).Virgin-martyr Anna (1940).Venerable Theodore the Silent
“No soul can exist without God, without His Son, without His Spirit. God is my being, my breath, my light, my strength, my drink, my food. He carries me as a mother carries her infant in her arms. More than this. Carrying me, my soul and body, He dwells in
Sunday March 1, 2026 / February 16, 2026 First Sunday of the Great Lent: Triumph of Orthodoxy. Tone five.Great Lent. Food with Oil “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Staromniy, Moscow region (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent).Martyrs Pamphilus presbyter, Valens deacon, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palestine
“The glory of God is a man fully alive.” Saint Irenaeus of Lyons #God #man #orthodox
Saturday February 28, 2026 / February 15, 2026 First Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone four.Great Lent. Food with Oil1Great Martyr Theodore Tyro (306) (movable holiday on Saturday of the 1st week of the Great Lent).Apostle Onesimus of the Seventy (109).New Hieromartyrs Michael Piataev and John Kumin priests (1930).New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Alexis, Alexis priests,