Commemoration of the Holy Myrrh-bearers: Mary Magdalene, Mary, wife of Cleopas, Salome, Joanna, Martha and Mary {sisters of Saint Lazarus (1st century)}, Susanna and others; Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemu; Martyr Adrian of Corinth (251); Hieromartyr Simeon, bishop in Persia, and those with him: Martyrs Abdechalas and Ananias presbyters, Usthazanes, Fusicus (Pusicius), Ascitrea, and Azat the Eunuch (344); Venerable Acacius, bishop of Melitene (435); Saint Agapitus, pope of Rome (536).
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Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Antipaskha. Second Sunday of Paskha, Saint Thomas’ Sunday
Palm Sunday (Willow Sunday) – The Entry of The Lord into Jerusalem, Sixth Sunday of Great Lent
Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St.Sabbas: Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796); Martyr Photina the Samaritan Woman and her sons: Martyrs Victor named Photinos, and Josiah with Anatolia, Photo, Photida, Paraskeva, Kyriakia, Domnina and Sebastian (66); Virginmartyrs of Amisus: Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (310); Saint Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813).
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder
Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder/Climax [Listvychnyk],
(movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent); Translation (moving) of the relics (846) of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829); Martyr Sabinus (Abibus) of Egypt (303); Martyrs Africanus, Publius, and Terence of Carthage (3rd century); Martyr Alexander of Macedonia (305); Martyr Christina of Persia (4th century); Venerable Aninas the Presbyter of the Euphrates.
Third Sunday of Great Lent
Veneration of the Holy Cross
Commemoration of The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetius, Callistus, Basoes, and others (845); Monk-martyrs Conon and his son Conon (270-275); The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress Saint Helen (326); Saint Arcadius, monk, of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Bulius.
Second Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas,Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th сentury); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyivan Caves Abbey; Saint Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis (circa 750); Saint Thalelaeus, hermit of Syria (460); Saint Titus, in the Near Caves, presbyter of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (1190); Saint Titus the Soldier, monk, in the Distant Caves in the Kyivan Caves Abbey (14th century).
First Sunday of The Great Fast Celebration of The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Cheesefare Sunday, Forgiveness Sunday, Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, the sinfulness of man, and the need for forgiveness.
Meatfare Sunday, of the Last Judgement;
Afterfeast of the Meeting
Commemoration of Venerable Bucolus, bishop of Smyrna (circa 100); Virgin-martyr Dorothea, and with her Martyrs Christina and Callista, sisters, and Theophilus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288-300); Martyr Julian (312); Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary, and their brother Martyr Lycarion, in Egypt; Venerable Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks of Palestine (6th century); Saint Photius, patriarch of Constantinople (891).