Commemoration of Martyrs Agathopodes, deacon, and Theodulus, reader, and those with them at Thessalonica (circa 303); Venerable Publius of Egypt, monk (4th century); Venerable Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus of Egypt (4th cent.); Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens; Venerable Plato, confessor of the Studion; Venerable Theodora, nun, of Thessalonica (892).

Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (522); (movable feast day on the 5th Sunday of Great Lent); Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, Cyril the Deacon and those with him (circa 364); Saint John Anchorite of Egypt (4th century); Venerable Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th century).

Commemoration of Hieromartyr Basil, presbyter of Ancyra (362); Martyr Drosida (Drosis) of zntioch, and five virgins (104); Saint Isaac, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383).

Commemoration of Martyrs Agapius, Publius, Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dikonisius, and two named Alexander, at Caesaraea in Palestine (303); Hieromartyr Alexander, presbyter of Side in Pamphylia (270-275); Martyr Nicander of Egypt (circa 302).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th century); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv-Caves Abbey; Venerable Theophylactus the Confessor, bishop of Nicomedia (842-845); Apostle Hermas of the Seventy (1st cent.); Hieromartyr Theodoretus, presbyter, of Antioch (361-363); Ven. Dometius, monk (363).

“Ти, Господи, землю колись заклав, а небо – то чин
Твоїх рук. Загинуть вони, а Ти будеш стояти…”
(Євреїв 1:10-11)

Протоієрей Тарас Славченко
2-га Неділя Великого Посту

Commemoration of Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates, The General (319);
Prophet Zachariah (circa 520 B.C.); Saint Sava II, Archbishop of Serbia (1271).

Commemoration of Martyr Tryphon of Campsada in Syria (250); Martyrs Perpetua, of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus and Felicitas (202-203); St. Peter of Galatia (circa 429); St. Vendemianus, hermit of Bithynia (circa 512).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory the Theologian, archbishop of Constantinople (389); Martyrs Felicitas of Rome and seven sons: Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial (164); Saint Publius, ascetic of Syria (380); Saint Mares the Singer of Syria (430).

“Christ Is Baptized!”, “In the River Jordan!”