Hammi, the Norwegian Forest Cat March 14, 2011 Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone one. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyr Eudocia of Heliopolis (152). New Hieromartyr Olga (1937). New Hieromartyrs Basil, Peter, John, Benjamin, Michael priests, New Hieromartyr Anthony, Virgin-martyrs Anna, Daria, Eudokia,
The Monastery at Dusk March 13, 2011 First Sunday of the Great Lent: Triumph of Orthodoxy. Tone one. 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). Venerable Basil the Confessor
March 12, 2011 First Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone eight. Great Lent. Food with Oil Great Martyr Theodore Tyro (306) (movable holiday on Saturday of the 1st week of the Great Lent). Venerable Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis (ca. 750). New Hieromartyr Peter priest, Martyr Michael (1938). Venerable Titus,
Our Rode Island Red Hens are very happy. March 11, 2011 First Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) St. Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza (420). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1930). New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1933). Virgin-martyr Anna (1937). New Hieromartyrs
March 10, 2011 First Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil St. Tarasius, archbishop of Constantinople (806). New Hieromartyr Alexander, priest, Virgin-Martyr Mstislava (1938). New Hieromartyr Priest Leo Korobczuk of Laskov (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944). New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1945). Hieromartyr
Father Moses works on the new patio, which will become the focal point of a new garden. March 9, 2011 First Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) First (4th c.) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of
Hammi likes high places. Hammi, enjoying an adventure. March 8, 2011 First Week of the Great Lent. Tone eight. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167). New Hieromartyrs Alexis, Nicholas priests and Martyr Sergius (1938). Venerable Polycarp, monk, of Briansk (1620-21). Venerables John,
March 7, 2011 Beginning of the Great Lent. Tone eight. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter – Full abstention from food Clean Monday. (On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the 1st week of Great Lent the Great Vespers the canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read). Uncovering of the
The Snow Covered Olympic Mountains March 6, 2011 The Sunday of Forgiveness. Tone eight. Cheese-fare Week. Meat is excluded Venerable Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia (795). St. Eustathius (Eustace), archbishop of Antioch (337). New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Daniel and Gregory priests (1930). New Hieromartyr Constantine priest, Paul deacon (1938). Virgin-Martyr Olga
March 5, 2011 Week of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Maslenitsa. Meat is excluded All of the venerable fathers, lit up with great deeds (movable holiday on Saturday of the Cheese-fare Week). Venerable Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (ca. 780). Abbot Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam