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
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
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
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
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
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
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).