Sunday · March 17, 2024(Julian: Mar 4)
Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
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
- Clean Monday · Great Lent beginsMajor feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚St. Alexis, Man of God; St. Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland
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Feasts of the Day
- Clean Monday · Great Lent beginsMajor feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚St. Alexis, Man of God; St. Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland
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Venerable Martyr Eudokia of
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Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bisho
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Sunday of the Prodigal Son
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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
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Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Bas
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St. Theophylact the Confesso
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Meatfare Sunday · Sunday of the Last Judgement
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Cheesefare Week begins
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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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Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)
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Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
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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
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Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra
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Venerable Martyr Nikon and h
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Sunday of Orthodoxy (Triumph of Orthodoxy)
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Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos
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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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St. John Climacus, author of
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Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
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no oil/wine/fish
Wine & oil
no fish
Fish allowed
+ wine & oil
Dairy week
no meat
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all foods
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