April 25, 2011 Bright Monday. Bright Week. Fast-free Entire week, fast-free. Venerable Basil the Confessor, bishop of Parium (760). New Hieromartyr Sergius (1938). Hieromartyr Zeno, bishop of Verona (ca. 260). Venerable Isaac the Syrian, abbot of Spoleto, Italy (ca. 550). Martyrs Menas, David, and John of Palestine (630). Virgin Anthusa
Category: The Morning Offering
Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! Christos Voskrese! Voistinu Voskrese!Al Maseeh Qam! Haqqan Qam!Hristus A Inviat! Adeverat a Inviat!Hristos Vaskrese! Vaistinu Vaskrese! MOSCOW: April 22, 2011 Pascal Message of His Holiness KIRILL, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, to the Archpastors, Pastors, Monastics and All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox
Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! Christos Voskrese! Voistinu Voskrese!Al Maseeh Qam! Haqqan Qam!Hristus A Inviat! Adeverat a Inviat!Hristos Vaskrese! Vaistinu Vaskrese! MOSCOW: April 22, 2011 Pascal Message of His Holiness KIRILL, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, to the Archpastors, Pastors, Monastics and All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox
Photo taken from the highest spot on the grounds of the Monastery. April 23, 2011 Passion Week: Great Saturday, descent into Hades. Great Lent. Food with Oil Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Zeno, Alexander, Theodore, and 33 others, beheaded at Carthage (250). New Hieromartyr Flegont priest (1938). Martyr Demetrius (1942).
April 22, 2011 Passion Week: Great Friday, Passion of Jesus Christ. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter – Full abstention from food Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (362). New Martyr Gabriel (1942). Martyrs Desan bishop, Mariabus presbyter, Abdiesus, and 270 other martyrs in Persia (362). Hieromartyr Bademus (Vadim), archimandrite of
April 21, 2011 / April 8, 2011 Passion Week: Great Thursday. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those with them (1st c.). New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1933) St. Niphont, bishop of Novgorod (1156). Venerable Rufus the
Abbot Tryphon, together with Pacific Lutheran University students. April 20, 2011 Passion Week: Great Wednesday. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Venerable George the Confessor, bishop of Mitylene (820). New Hieromartyr Arcadius priest (1933). Martyr Eudocia (1939). Venerable Daniel, abbot, of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1540). Martyr Calliopus at
April 19, 2011 Passion Week: Great Tuesday. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582). New Hieromartyr John priest (1934). New Hieromartyr James priest (1943). St. Sebastian, Elder of Optina and Karaganda (1966). St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, enlightener of the Slavs (885). Venerable Platonida (Platonis)
The Celebration of the Divine Liturgy for Palm Sunday April 18, 2011 Passion Week: Great Monday. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Transation of the relics (1652) of St. Job, patriarch of Moscow (1607). Martyrs Theodulus, reader, and Agathopodes, deacon, and those with them at Thessalonica
April 17, 2011 The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem. Great Lent. Fish Allowed Venerable Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily (883). Venerable George, monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus (9th c.). New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Benjamin (Kononov) and Hieromonk Nicephorus (Kuchin) of Solovki (1928). New Hieromartyr Nicholas bishop of Velsk,