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).

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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,

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Father Moses, our bread baker. April 16, 2011 Lazarus Saturday. Tone five. Great Lent. Caviar Allowed Feast of the Georgian Language (movable holiday on the Lazarus Saturday) (Georgia). Venerable Nicetas the Confessor, abbot of Medikion (824). Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (307-308). Venerable Illyricus of Mt. Myrsinon in the Peloponnesus. Martyrs

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