Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder

Commemoration of Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder (649); (moveable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent); Prophet Joad (10th century B.C.); Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, and Epaphroditus, of the Seventy (6th c.); Saint Eubula, mother of Saint Panteleimon (304); Saint John the Silent of St. Sabbas’ monastery (558). Saint Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662); Saint Sophrony (Kryshtalevsky), Bishop of Irkutsk (1771). 30 March 2025 — Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great.

Second Sunday of Great Lent

Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th century); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves Abbey; Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (1st century); Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt (287); Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305); Hieromartyr Alexander, pope of Rome (119); Martyr Julian of Anazarbus (305); Martyrs Trophimus and Thalus of Laodicea (circa 300);

Cheesefare Sunday, Forgiveness Sunday, Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, the sinfulness of man, and the need for forgiveness.

Commemoration of Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia (circa 326); Virgin-Martyr Euthalia of Sicily (257); Martyr Troadius of Neoceasarea (3rd century); Saint Agatho of Egypt, monk (5th century); 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards (circa 579); Saint Arsenius, bishop of Tver (1409).