March 24, 2011 Third Week of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil St. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (638). St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod, wonderwoker (1458). Venerable Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917). Venarable Patrikius confessor (1933). New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1937). Venerable

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Hieromonk Paul serving Presanctified Liturgy March 23, 2011 Third Week of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyrs Codratus (Quadratus) and with him: Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, Dionysius (another), Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, Leonidas, Chariessa, Nunechia, Basilissa,

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Hieromonk Paul, serving Presanctified Liturgy March 22, 2011 Third Week of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste: Cyrion (or Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John, Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus,

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March 21, 2011 Third Week of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Venerable Theophylactus, bishop of Nicomedia (845). New Hieromartyr John priest (1923). Martyr Vladimir (1942). Venerables Lazarus and Athanasius, monks of Murman Island, Onega Lake (1391). Apostle Hermas of the

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March 20, 2011 Second Sunday of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. Food with Oil St. Gregory Palamas the Archbishop of Thessalonica (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent). Synaxis of all Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the

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March 19, 2011 Second Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone one. Great Lent. Food with Oil Parents’ Saturday. Remembrance of the dead. The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others (845). Venerable Job (Joshua in Schema) of Solovki (1720). The uncovering

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Pacific Lutheran University students visit the Monastery March 18, 2011 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone one. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyr Conon of Isauria (2nd c.). St. Nicholas (1919). New Hieromartyr John priest and New Hieromartyrs Mardarius and Theopane (1938). St. Nicholas

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March 17, 2011 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone one. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan (475). Venerable Gerasimus, monk, of Vologda (1178). St. Daniel, prince of Moscow (1303). New Hieromartyrs Archpriest Dimitry Ivanov of Kiev (1933) and Priest Vyacheslav (Leontiev) of

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March 16, 2011 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone one. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basiliscus (308). Virgin-martyr Martha and martyr Michael (1938). Venerable Piama, virgin (337). Sts. Zeno and Zoilus. “Volokolamsk” Icon of

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March 15, 2011 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone one. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Appearance of the Kolomenskoye Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, “Reigning” (1917). Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (315). St. Arsenius, bishop of Tver (1409). Virgin-martyr Euthalia of Sicily (257). Martyr Troadius

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