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 Nicodemus; Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and his companions Acacius, Menander, and Polyenus (circa 100); Martyr Parthenius of Zhovkiv, from Rome (250); Martyr Calufus of Egypt (283-303); Venerable John, bishop of the Goths in Crimea (790); Right-believing Tamara, queen of Georgia (1213).
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Antipaskha. Second Sunday of Paskha, Saint Thomas’ Sunday
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen!
Palm Sunday (Willow Sunday) – The Entry of The Lord into Jerusalem, Sixth Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, and their companions (1st century); Martyrs Saturninus, Jakischolus (Inischolus), Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius, Mammius, the Virgin Cercyra, and Christodolus the Ethiopian, at Corfu (circa 63); Martyrs Dada, Maximus, and Quintilian at Dorostolum (286); Saint Cyril, bishop of Turiv (1183); Lviv icon of the Mother-of-God.
Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); Hieromartyr Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proculus, and Sosius deacons, Desiderius reader, and Eutychius and Acutius laymen, at Pozzuoli (circa 305); Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, and his mother Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscurus, Socrates, and Dionysius (II century); Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus of Nicomedia (303); Saint Maximian, patriarch of Constantinople (434).
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); Saint Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655); Martyr Ardalion the Actor (305-311); Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs in Persia (circa 341); Martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilna in Lithuania (1347).
Third Sunday of Great Lent, Veneration of the Holy Cross
Commemoration of Venerable George, confessor, bishop of Mitylene (circa 820); Faithful Het’man Peter (Konashevych-Sahaidachnyj) (1622); Martyr Calliopus at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304); Martyrs Rufinus deacon, Aquilina, and 200 soldiers at Sinope (310); Venerable Serapion of Egypt, monk.
First Sunday of Great Lent. Celebration of The Sunday of Orthodoxy. Fore-feast of the Annunciation of The Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos (Mother-of-God).
Commemoration of Venerable Zachariah the Recluse of Egypt (IV century); St. Artemius, Bishop of Seleucia (I cent.); Venerable Zachariah of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (XIII-XIV cent.); Venerable James the Confessor, Bishop of Catania (802-811).
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 Venerable Alexius, the Man of God (411); Martyr Marinus of Caesarea (260); Saint Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (4-5 centuries). Last day before Great Lent.
Meatfare Sunday, of the Last Judgement
Commemoration of Martyr Quadratus and with him Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, Dionysius, Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, Leonidas, Chariessa, Nunechia, Basilissa, Nice, Galla, Galina, Theodora, and others at Corinth (258); Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus of Nicomedia (III century); Venerable Anastasia (567-568).