SUNDAY, 13/26 MARCH: FOURTH SUNDAY OF THE GREAT FAST; (Tone 8); Saint John Climacus (“of the Ladder” - commemorated on the 4th Sunday of the Great Fast); Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (846); Martyr Sabinus of Egypt (+287); Martyrs Africanus, Publius and Terence (+3rd C); Martyr Alexander of Macedonia (+305-311); Martyr Christina of Persia (+4th C); Hieromartyr Nicholas, presbyter (+1919); Hieromartyr Gregory, presbyter (+1921):
9:40AM- Hours, Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great
Epistle: Heb.6,13-21 Gospel: Mk.9,17-31
Thursday, 17/30 March: Thursday of the Great Canon; Saint Alexius the Man of God (+411); Saint Macarius, Hegumen of Kaliazin, Wonderworker (+1483); Hieromartyr Alexander, presbyter (+1919); Hieromartyr Victor, presbyter(+1942); Saint Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (+461):
6:00PM- (Wednesday evening) : Matins with the Great Penitential Canon
of Saint Andrew of Crete
Friday, 18/31 March: Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (+386); Martyrs Trophim and Eucarpus (+c300); Hieromartyr Dimitrius, presbyter, and Venerable-martyr Natalia (+1938):
9:30AM- Third, Sixth, Ninth Hours; Typical Psalms
At 6th Hour: Isaiah 45,11-17
Saturday, 19 March/1 April: Praises to the Most Holy Theotokos (Saturday of the Akathist); Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria (+283) and with them Claudius the Tribune and his wife Hilaria, Jason and Maurus their sons, Diodorus the presbyter and Marianus the deacon; Smolensk Icon of the Mother-of-God called “Tender Feeling” (1103):
9:30AM- Akathist to the Smolensk Icon of the Mother-of-God called “Tender Feeling”
SUNDAY, 20 MARCH/ 2 APRIL: FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE GREAT FAST; (Tone 1);
Saint Mary of Egypt (commemorated on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); The Venerable Fathers slain at the Monastery of Saint Sabbas – John, Sergius, Patrick and others (+796); Venerable-martyr Euphrosynus of “Sinozersk” (“Blue Jay Lake”), Novgorod (+1612); Martyr Photina (Svetlana) the Samaritan woman, her sons Martyrs Victor, called Photinus, and Joses, Martyrs Anatolia, Phota, Photida, Paraskeva, Kyriake, Domnina and Martyr Sebastian (+c 66); Martyrs Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia and Theodosia (+310); Saint Nikita the Confessor, Archbishop of Appolonias in Bithynia (+c 813-820); Hieromartyr Vladimir, presbyter (+ 1918); Hieromartyr Basil, deacon (+1938):
9:40AM- Hours, Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great
Epistle: Heb.9,11-14 Gospel: Mk.10,32-45
