SUNDAY, 23 FEBRUARY/ 8 MARCH: SECOND SUNDAY OF THE GREAT FAST; (Tone 6); Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (commemorated on the Second Sunday of the Great Fast); Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (+167);  Uncovering of the Relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow (1998); Sobor of all the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves Monastery (commemorated on the 2^nd Sunday of the Great Fast);  Hieromartyr Paul Kushnikov (+1918); Hieromartyrs Alexis Nikolsky, Michael Razhkin and Nicholas Dimitrov the presbyters and Martyr Sergei Borodavkin (+1938):

9:40AM-   Hours,   Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great

                 Epistle:   Heb.1,10- 2,3                                             Gospel:   Mk.2, 1-12