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Saturday March 8, 2025 / February 23, 2025

First Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone three.
Great Lent. Food with Oil

Great Martyr Theodore Tyro (306) (movable holiday on Saturday of the 1st week of the Great Lent).
Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167).
New Hieromartyrs Alexis, Nicholas priests and Martyr Sergius (1938).
Uncovering of the relics (1998) St Matrona the Blind of Moscow (1952).
Venerable Polycarp, monk, of Briansk (1620-21).
Venerables John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian desert (5th c.).
Venerable Alexander, founder of the order of the Unsleeping Ones (430).
Venerable Moses, monk, of White Lake (1480).
Venerable Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian (372) (Greek).
Venerable Damian of Esphigmenou, Mt. Athos (1280) (Greek).
New Monk-martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568) (Greek).
St. John the Harvester of Stylos in Calabria (11th c.).
Venerable Cosmas of Zographou, Mt. Athos (1281).
New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese (1618).
St. Nazarius, abbot of Valaam (1809).
St. Mildburga, abbess of Much Wenlock..
Martyr Clement (Greek).
Martyr Thea (Greek).

The Scripture Readings

Hebrews 1:1-12 (svenska) · Hebrews 1:1-12 (engelska)
2 Timothy 2:1-10 (svenska) · 2 Timothy 2:1-10 (engelska) (St. Theodore)
Mark 2:23 - 3:5 (svenska) · Mark 2:23 - 3:5 (engelska)
John 15:17-16:2 (svenska) · John 15:17-16:2 (engelska) (St. Theodore)