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).

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).

Sunday of the Prodigal1 Son, Synaxis (Meeting) of the Three Hierarchs: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom

Commemoration Hieromartyr Hippolytus, pope of Rome, and with him Martyrs Censorinus, Sabinus, and others (269); St. Zeno, hermit and disciple of St. Basil the Great (414); Martyr Theophilus the New (784); St. Peter, king of Bulgaria (967); St. Zeno the Faster, of the Distant Caves at the Kyiv Caves Abbey (14th century).