Monday, March 9 / February 24 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 24 / March 9. First and Second Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist [(1) Is 40:1-3, 9; 41:17-18; 45:8; 48:20-21; 54:1; (2) Malachi 3:1-3, 5-7, 12, 18; 4:4-6; (3) Wis 4:7, 16-17, 19-20; 5:1-7. Matins: Lk 7:17-30. Liturgy: II…
Sunday, March 8 / February 23 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 23 / March 8. Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian deserts. St. Alexander, founder of the Order of the Unsleeping Ones. St. Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian. St.…
The Triumph of Orthodoxy My dear friends, The much respected Mitred Protopriest Victor Potapov, Rector of Saint John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, D.C., sent the following, which I want to share with those who receive The Morning Offering. These words are the pre-1917 recollections of Johann von Gardner, the eminent Slavic musicologist (best known in the English language for…
Saturday, March 7 / February 22 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 22 / March 7. Opening of the Relics of Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople. Martyrs Maurice and his son Photinus, and Martyrs Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria. Saints Thalassius, Limnaeus, and Baradates, hermits of Syria.…
Friday, March 6 / February 21 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 21 / March 6. St. Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia. St. Eustathius (Eustace), Archbishop of Antioch. (services combined) St. George, Bishop of Amastris on the Black Sea. St. John the Scholastic, Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem. ‘Kozelshchanskaya’ Icon of the…
Thursday, March 5 / February 20 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 20 / March 5. St. Leo, Bishop of Catania in Sicily. St. Agatho, pope of Rome. Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him. Beheading of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves, and his disciple St. Bessian of Murom.…
Wednesday, March 4 / February 19 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 19 / March 4. Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphia. St. Dositheus of Palestine, disciple of St. Abba Dorotheus. St. Rabulas of Samosata. Saints Eugene and Macarius, presbyters, confessors at Antioch. Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodota of Adrianopolis.…
Tuesday, March 3 / February 18 (Church Calendar) ~Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day February 18 / March 3. St. Leo the Great, pope of Rome. St. Flavian the confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Agapitus, Bishop of Synnada in Phrygia, and Martyrs Victor, Dorotheus, Theodulus, and Agrippa, who suffered under Licinius. St. Cosmas, monk of Yakhromsk. New-Martyr Priest…
Monday, March 2 / February 17 (Church Calendar) ~The Beginning of Great and Holy Lent~ Saints of the Day: February 17 / March 2. Great-Martyr Theodore the Tyro. Opening of the Relics of Martyr Menas of Alexandria (same as December 10). St. Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip. St. Auxibius, Bishop of Soli in Cyprus. St. Theodosius the Bulgarian and his disciple…
Sunday, March 1 / February 16 (Church Calendar) ~Forgiveness Sunday~ Saints of the Day: February 16 / March 1. Martyrs Pamphilus presbyter, Valens deacon, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel and Danial, at Caesaria in Palestine. St. Marutha, Bishop of Martyropolis in Mesopotamia. Persian Martyrs with St. Maruthas. Martyr Romanus of Mt. Athos. New-Martyrs Priest Elias (1934) and…
Saturday, February 28 / February 15 (Church Calendar) Saints of the Day February 15 / 28. Ap Onesimus of the Seventy. Synaxis of St. John the Theologian at Diaconissa. St. Eusebius, hermit of Syria.St. Paphnutius, monk, and his daughter St. Euphrosyne, nun, of Alexandria. Martyr Major of Gaza. St. Paphnutius, recluse of the Kiev Caves. St. Dalmatus, abbot and founder…
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory to Him forever! Saints of the Day February 14 / 27. St. Cyril, Equal-to-the Apostles, teacher of the Slavs. St. Auxentius, monk of Bithynia. St. Isaac, recluse of theKiev Caves. St. Maron, hermit of Syria. St. Abraham, Bishop of Charres in Mesopotamia. Translation of the Relics of Martyr Michael and his counselor Theodore of Chernigov.…