Saturday · March 8, 2008(Julian: Feb 24)
Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)
Major Feast Dairy
Fasting
Fast
Dairy Allowed (Cheesefare Week)
You may eat
Dairy, eggs, fish, wine, oil, vegetables — but no meat.
To avoid
Meat.
Feasts of the Day
- Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)Major feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚St. Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia
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Feasts of the Day
- Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)Major feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚St. Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia
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Sat
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Meatfare Sunday · Sunday of the Last Judgement
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Cheesefare Week begins
3
Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus
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St. Gerasimus of the Jordan
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Martyr Conon of Isauria
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The 42 Martyrs of Ammorion
7
Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Bas
8
Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)
9
Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
10
Martyr Codratus of Corinth a
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St. Sophronius, Patriarch of
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St. Theophanes the Confessor
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Translation of the relics of
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St. Benedict of Nursia
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Martyr Agapius and those wit
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Sunday of Orthodoxy (Triumph of Orthodoxy)
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St. Alexis, Man of God
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem
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Martyrs Chrysanthus and Dari
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Holy Fathers slain at the Mo
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St. James the Confessor, Bis
22
Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra
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Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
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Forefeast of the Annunciatio
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Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos
26
Synaxis of the Archangel Gab
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Matrona of Thessalonica
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St. Hilarion the New
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Hieromartyrs Mark of Arethus
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Sunday of the Holy Cross (Adoration of the Cross)
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Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop
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Strict fast
no oil/wine/fish
Wine & oil
no fish
Fish allowed
+ wine & oil
Dairy week
no meat
Fast free
all foods
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