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.
Third Sunday of Great Lent
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).
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).