Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Continue reading March 10, 2017 Friday of the Second Week of the Great Fast Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at which we commemorate our Holy Father Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (638)
Day: 23 February 2017
March 9, 2017 The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (321-23) Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at which we also commemorate Codratus
March 8, 2017 Wednesday of the Second Week of the Great Fast (with commemoration of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste)
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Continue reading March 8, 2017 Wednesday of the Second Week of the Great Fast (with commemoration of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste)
March 5, 2017 First Sunday of the Great Fast; Sunday of Orthodoxy; Octoechos Tone 1; Holy Martyr Conon (249-251)
The First Sunday of Great Lent is kept as the anniversary of the restoration of the Holy Icons to veneration and honour after the final defeat of the iconoclast heresy. The Seventh Ecumenical Council in the year 787 condemned the iconoclast heresy, but the final restoration of the Holy Icons did not take place until 843, with a solemn procession on the first Sunday of Lent in that year. Ever since then, all the churches of the Byzantine tradition, including our Ukrainian Catholic Church, remember that event joyfully. Continue reading March 5, 2017 First Sunday of the Great Fast; Sunday of Orthodoxy; Octoechos Tone 1; Holy Martyr Conon (249-251)