Left to right: Hieromonk Mark, Monk Moses, Hieromonk Paul March 4, 2011 Week of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Maslenitsa. Meat is excluded 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

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Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission March 3, 2011 Week of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Maslenitsa. Meat is excluded Venerable Shio Mgvime (6th c.) (Georgia) (movable holiday on Thursday of the Cheese-fare Week). St. Leo the Great, pope of Rome (461). New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Medvedsky) (1932) priest and Benjamin hieromonk (1938). Commemoration

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Let us contemplate the Last Judgment March 2, 2011 Week of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Maslenitsa. Meat is excluded 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). Venerable Theodore the

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Mount Rainier, as seen from Vashon Island March 1, 2011 Week of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Maslenitsa. Meat is excluded Martyrs Pamphilus presbyter, Valens deacon, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palestine (307-309). St. Macarius, metropolitan of Moscow, apostle to the

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February 28, 2011 Week of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Maslenitsa. Meat is excluded Maslenitsa, entire week. Apostle Onesimus of the Seventy (109). New Hieromartyrs Michael Piataev and John Kumin priests (1930). New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Alexis, Alexis priests, Simeon deacon, New Hieromartyr Paul and Virgin-martyr Sophia (1938). Venerable Paphnutius, recluse

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Saint Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Pray to God for us. February 27, 2011 / February 14, 2011 Sunday of the Last Judgment. Tone seven. Archbishop Kyrill, many years on your names day! Venerable Auxentius, monk of Bithynia (470). St. Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, teacher of the Slavs (869). St. Raphael, bishop of Brooklyn (1915).

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February 26, 2011 The Saturday of the Dead. Tone six. Venerable Martinian, monk, of Caesarea in Palestine (422). New Hieromartyrs Basil and Gabriel priests (1919). New Hieromartyr Silvester (Olshevsky) bishop of Omsk and Pavlodar (1920). New Hieromartyrs Zosimas, Nicholas, Basil, John, Leontius, Vladimir, Parthenius, John, John, Michael priests and Eugine

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February 25, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Fast. Fish Allowed Iveron Icon (Moscow) of the Most Holy Theotokos (9th c.). St. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch (381). St. Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of all Russia (1378). St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840). New Hieromartyr Alexius (Buy),

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February 24, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Hieromartyr Blaise, bishop of Sebaste (316). St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), prince and wonderworker of Pskov (1138). Venerable Demetrius, monk of Priluki (Vologda) (1392). St. Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (867). St. Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork

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February 23, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Fast. Fish Allowed Hieromartyr Charalampus, bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus (202). New Hieromartyrs Peter and Valerian priests (1930). New Martyr Anatole (Greesiuk), metropolitan of Odessa (1938). St. Anna of Novgorod, wife of Yaroslav I (1050).

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