Aerial photograph of the Monastery. March 28, 2011 Fourth Week of the Great Lent: Adoration of Cross. Tone three. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplios), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303). New Hieromartyr Demetrius
March 27, 2011 / March 14, 2011 Third Sunday of the Great Lent: Adoration of Cross. Tone three. Great Lent. Food with Oil Venerable Benedict of Nursia, abbot (543). St. Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1353). St. Rostislav-Michael, prince of Kiev (1167). St. Euschemon, bishop of Lampsacus (9th c.).
My San Francisco hosts (and dear friends,) Nadine and Nick Buick March 26, 2011 Third Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. Food with Oil Parents’ Saturday. Remembrance of the dead. Translation of the relics (846) of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829). New Hieromartyr Nicolas
Consul General Vladimir and Mrs. Lubov Vinokurov March 25, 2011 Third Week of the Great Lent. Tone two. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane (818). St. Alexander confessor priest (1933). New Hieromartyr John priest, New Hieromartyr Vladimir (1938). New Hieromartyr
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
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,
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,
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
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
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