Sunday · February 22, 2026(Julian: Feb 9)
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
- ✚Uncovering of the relics of the martyrs at the Gates of Eugenius
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Feasts of the Day
- Clean Monday · Great Lent beginsMajor feast
Lives of the Saints
- ✚Uncovering of the relics of the martyrs at the Gates of Eugenius
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Wed
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Sat
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Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (Triodion begins)
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Meeting of the Lord in the Temple
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Holy Righteous Symeon the Go
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St. Isidore of Pelusium
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Martyr Agatha of Sicily
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St. Bucolus, Bishop of Smyrn
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St. Parthenius of Lampsacus
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Sunday of the Prodigal Son
9
Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch
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Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bis
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Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop o
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St. Meletius, Archbishop of
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St. Martinian of Palestine
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Meatfare Sunday · Sunday of the Last Judgement
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Cheesefare Week begins
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Martyrs Pamphilus, Valens, a
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Great Martyr Theodore the Ty
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St. Leo the Great, Pope of R
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Apostle Archippus of the Sev
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St. Leo, Bishop of Catania
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Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)
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Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
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Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop
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First and Second Findings of
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St. Tarasius, Archbishop of
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St. Porphyrius, Bishop of Ga
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St. Procopius the Confessor
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St. Basil the Confessor
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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
Great feast Major feast