Fasts & Feasts

February 15 - March 26

The Holy and Great Fast

February

21 - 1st Sunday of the Great Fast (Sunday of Orthodoxy)
27 - All Souls Saturday
28 - 2nd Sunday of the Great Fast (Palamas)

March

6 - All Souls Saturday
7 - 3rd Sunday of the Great Fast (Veneration of the Cross)
13 - All Souls Saturday
14 - 4th Sunday of the Great Fast (Climacus)
18 - Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
20 - Akathistos Saturday
21 - 5th Sunday of the Great Lent (Mary of Egypt)
25 - Annunciation to the Mother of God

March 27-April 4

Great and Holy Week

28 - Palm Sunday

April

4 - Pascha

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2010-03-15 Evidence of pseudo-synod of UGCC of 1946 presented
2010-03-12 Patriarch Gregorios III Appeals for Prayer and Forgiveness for Victims of Violence and Fanaticism in Iraq
2010-03-12 Speech of Patriarch Gregorios III in Nalanchira, India
2010-03-12 Patriarch Gregorios III (Laham) in India
2010-03-12 The delegation of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the USA examines the Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv
2010-03-12 Greek Catholic community of the Russian city Omsk honored the memory of the “Kobzar”
2010-03-09 Cardinal McCarrick of Washington Visits Ukraine
2010-03-09 Polish Catholics, Russian Orthodox seek to ease tensions through talks
2010-03-05 Iraq: 2,000 Christians killed, 600,000 have fled nation since 2003
2010-03-04 Orthodox Brotherhoods Ask to Revive Memory of Prince Askold’s Baptism of Rus
2010-03-03 Bishop Vasyl (Medvit) Describes the UGCC in Central and Eastern Ukraine to Canadians
2010-03-01 Pope pleads for help for Iraqi Christians
2010-02-22 Patriarch Gregorios III attends the Conference of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs Meeting in Cairo
2010-02-20 Patriarchal and Synodal Encyclical On the Sunday of Orthodoxy
2010-02-18 Another Historic Church Burns Down in Lviv Region of Ukraine
2010-02-18 Moscow's Latin Catholic Leader Says Union with Orthodox is Deepest Wish
2010-02-16 Organized violence driving Iraqi Christians out of Mosul
2010-02-15 Letter for Great and Holy Lent 2010 from His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III
2010-02-12 Catholics and Orthodox should unite to save Christian Europe, Pope says
2010-02-12 Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for Holy and Great Lent 2010
2010-02-04 Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia to Lecture in Washington, DC & New Jersey February 9-17
2010-02-01 Cardinal Kasper upbeat on ecumenical prospects with Oriental Orthodox
2010-01-28 New Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Suggests Worldwide Ecumenical Encounter
2010-01-28 Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for the Feast of Three Hierarchs
2010-01-26 Acts of the Oriental Churches
2010-01-26 Papal Message to New Serbian Patriarch
2010-01-25 Apostolic Nuncio: Meeting of Patriarch of Moscow and Pope Could Become Icon of 21st Century
2010-01-25 Exhibition of documents about the violent liquidation, underground activity, and legalization of the UGCC
2010-01-25 First Enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia takes place in Belgrade
2010-01-25 ‘The Divine Liturgy” by Archbishop Hilarion (Alfeyev) released on audiodisc in the USA
2010-01-25 Archbishop Hilarion meets with dean and chancellor of St. Vladimir’s Theological Seminary
2010-01-23 Byzantines at the March for Life in Washington, DC
2010-01-23 Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants of Lviv will gather together for a joint prayer
2010-01-23 Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis appointed for the Stryj Eparchy
2010-01-22 Archbishop Hilarion receives Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation
2010-01-22 New Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church is elected
2010-01-19 Draft Guidelines for October's Middle East Synod
2010-01-19 His Beatitude Lubomyr shared the Christmas prosphoron for the third time
2010-01-19 Guidelines for Mideast Synod
2010-01-19 Outline for Mideast Synod Released
2010-01-19 Synod Leader Considers Keys for Mideast Meeting
2010-01-18 Eastern Churches Ordaining Numerous Priests
2010-01-15 Ukrainian disputes are main obstacle to Pope-Patriarch meeting, says Orthodox spokesman
2010-01-11 Patriarch Lubomyr: Year of Chirstian Life Will Accent the Conscerated Life
2010-01-11 Patriarch Kirill's Christmas Messagel: Faith Cures Errors in Russian Society
2009-12-31 Attacks on Iraqi Christians continue: intimidation campaign in Mosul
2009-12-31 Greek Catholic leader repeats he is ready to leave his post
2009-12-30 Metropolitan Nicholas: Archpastoral Letter for the Nativity 2009
2009-12-30 Patriarch Lubomyr: “Our desire is to return to the primary unity”
2009-12-30 Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for the Feast of Saint Basil and the New Year

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We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . . I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!

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