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SUMMARY:Sunday of Orthodoxy
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/01/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sunday of Orthodoxy; The Holy Righteous Martyr Eudocia the Samaritan; Andonina the New Martyr; David the Archbishop\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:12-35\nAt that time\,  two of them were going to a village named Emmaus\, about seven miles from Jerusalem\, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together\, Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him. And He said to them\, “What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?” and they stood still\, looking sad. Then one of them\, named Cleopas\, answered Him\, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” And He said to them\, “What things?” And they said to him\, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth\, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people\, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to be condemned to death\, and crucified Him. But we had hoped that He was the one to redeem Israel. Yes\, and besides all this\, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover\, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find His body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels\, who said that He was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb\, and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.” And He said to them\, “O foolish men\, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was not it necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into this glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the prophets\, He interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself. So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further\, but they constrained Him\, saying\, “Stay with us\, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So He went in to stay with them. When He was at table with them\, He took the bread and blessed\, and broke it\, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished out of their sight. They said to each other\, “Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked to us on the road\, while He opened to us the scriptures?” And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them\, who said\, “The Lord has risen indeed\, and has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26\, 32-40\nBrethren\, by faith Moses\, when he was grown up\, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter\, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt\, for he looked to the reward.\nAnd what more shall I say?  For time would fail me to tell of Gideon\, Barak\, Samson\, Jephthah\, of David and Samuel and the prophets — who through faith conquered kingdoms\, enforced justice\, received promises\, stopped the mouths of lions\, quenched raging fire\, escaped the edge of the sword\, won strength out of weakness\, became mighty in war\, put foreign enemies to flight.  Women received their dead by resurrection.  Some were tortured\, refusing to accept release\, that they might rise again to a better life.  Others suffered mocking and scourging\, and even chains and imprisonment.  They were stoned\, they were sawn in two\, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats\, destitute\, afflicted\, ill-treated — of whom the world was not worthy — wandering over deserts and mountains\, and in dens and caves of the earth.\nAnd all these\, though well attested by their faith\, did not receive what was promised\, since God had foreseen something better for us\, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.\nGospel Reading: John 1:43-51\nAt that time\, Jesus decided to go to Galilee.  And he found Philip and said to him\, “Follow me.”  Now Philip was from Bethsaida\, the city of Andrew and Peter.  Philip found Nathanael\, and he said to him\, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote\, Jesus of Nazareth\, the son of Joseph.”  Nathanael said to him\, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”  Philip said to him\, “Come and see.”  Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him\, and said of him\, “Behold\, an Israelite indeed\, in whom is no guile!”  Nathanael said to him\, “How do you know me?”  Jesus answered him\, “Before Philip called you\, when you were under the fig tree\, I saw you.”  Nathanael answered him\, “Rabbi\, you are the Son of God!  You are the King of Israel!”  Jesus answered him\, “Because I said to you\, I saw you under the fig tree\, do you believe?  You shall see greater things than these.”  And he said to him\, “Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, you will see heaven opened\, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”
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SUMMARY:Hesychius the Martyr
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/02/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Hesychius the Martyr; Our Holy Father Nicholas Planas; Joachim of Vatopedi who was given the name Papoulakis; Andronikos & Athanasia the Martyrs; Theodotos the Holy Martyr\, Bishop of Cyrenia; Euthalia the Virgin-Martyr of Sicily; Chad\, Bishop of Lichfield\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 4:2-5:7\nIn that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious\, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.  And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy\, every one who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem\, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.  Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day\, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy and a pavilion.  It will be for a shade by day from the heat\, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.  Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.  He digged it and cleared it of stones\, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it\, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes\, but it yielded wild grapes.  And now\, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah\, judge\, I pray you\, between me and my vineyard.  What more was there to do for my vineyard\, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes\, why did it yield wild grapes?  And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge\, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall\, and it shall be trampled down.  I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed\, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel\, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice\, but behold\, bloodshed; for righteousness\, but behold\, a cry!\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 3:21-4:7\n And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins\, and clothed them.  Then the LORD God said\, “Behold\, the man has become like one of us\, knowing good and evil; and now\, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life\, and eat\, and live for ever”- therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden\, to till the ground from which he was taken.  He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim\, and a flaming sword which turned every way\, to guard the way to the tree of life.\n Now Adam knew Eve his wife\, and she conceived and bore Cain\, saying\, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”  And again\, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep\, and Cain a tiller of the ground.  In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground\, and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering\, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry\, and his countenance fell.  The LORD said to Cain\, “Why are you angry\, and why has your countenance fallen?  If you do well\, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well\, sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you\, but you must master it.”\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 3:34-4:22\nToward the scorners he is scornful\, but to the humble he shows favor.  The wise will inherit honor\, but fools get disgrace.\n  Hear\, O sons\, a father’s instruction\, and be attentive\, that you may gain insight; for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.  When I was a son with my father\, tender\, the only one in the sight of my mother\, he taught me\, and said to me\, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments\, and live; do not forget\, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.  Do not forsake her\, and she will keep you; love her\, and she will guard you.  The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom\, and whatever you get\, get insight.  Prize her highly\, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.  She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”\n  Hear\, my son\, and accept my words\, that the years of your life may be many.  I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.  When you walk\, your step will not be hampered; and if you run\, you will not stumble.  Keep hold of instruction\, do not let go; guard her\, for she is your life.  Do not enter the path of the wicked\, and do not walk in the way of evil men.  Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.  For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.  For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.  But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn\, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.  The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.\n  My son\, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.  Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
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SUMMARY:The Holy Martyrs Eutropius\, Cleonicus\, and Basiliscus
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/03/2026\nSaints and Feasts: The Holy Martyrs Eutropius\, Cleonicus\, and Basiliscus; Theodoretos the Holy Martyr of Antioch; Nonnita\, mother of Saint David\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 5:7-16\nThus says the Lord: For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel\, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice\, but behold\, bloodshed; for righteousness\, but behold\, a cry!  Woe to those who join house to house\, who add field to field\, until there is no more room\, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.  The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate\, large and beautiful houses\, without inhabitant.  For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath\, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”  Woe to those who rise early in the morning\, that they may run after strong drink\, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!  They have lyre and harp\, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD\, or see the work of his hands.  Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger\, and their multitude is parched with thirst.  Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure\, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down\, her throng and he who exults in her.  Man is bowed down\, and men are brought low\, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.  But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice\, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 4:8-15\n Cain said to Abel his brother\, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field\, Cain rose up against his brother Abel\, and killed him.  Then the LORD said to Cain\, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said\, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”  And the LORD said\, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.  And now you are cursed from the ground\, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.  When you till the ground\, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”  Cain said to the LORD\, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.  Behold\, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth\, and whoever finds me will slay me.”  Then the LORD said to him\, “Not so! If any one slays Cain\, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain\, lest any who came upon him should kill him.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 5:1-15\nMy son\, be attentive to my wisdom\, incline your ear to my understanding; that you may keep discretion\, and your lips may guard knowledge.  For the lips of a loose woman drip honey\, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood\, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander\, and she does not know it.\n  And now\, O sons\, listen to me\, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.  Keep your way far from her\, and do not go near the door of her house; lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless; lest strangers take their fill of your strength\, and your labors go to the house of an alien; and at the end of your life you groan\, when your flesh and body are consumed\, and you say\, “How I hated discipline\, and my heart despised reproof!  I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.  I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”  Drink water from your own cistern\, flowing water from your own well.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/the-holy-martyrs-eutropius-cleonicus-and-basiliscus-2/
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SUMMARY:Gerasimus the Righteous of Jordan
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/04/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Gerasimus the Righteous of Jordan; Paul & his sister Juliana and their Companions; Daniel\, Prince of Moscow; Gregory\, Bishop of Constance\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 5:16-25\nBut the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice\, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.  Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture\, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.  Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood\, who draw sin as with cart ropes\, who say: “Let him make haste\, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near\, and let it come\, that we may know it!”  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil\, who put darkness for light and light for darkness\, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes\, and shrewd in their own sight!  Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine\, and valiant men in mixing strong drink\, who acquit the guilty for a bribe\, and deprive the innocent of his right!  Therefore\, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble\, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame\, so their root will be as rottenness\, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts\, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.  Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people\, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them\, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 4:16-26\n Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD\, and dwelt in the land of Nod\, east of Eden.  Cain knew his wife\, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city\, and called the name of the city after the name of his son\, Enoch.  To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Mehujael\, and Mehujael the father of Methushael\, and Methushael the father of Lamech.  And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah\, and the name of the other Zillah.  Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.  His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.  Zillah bore Tubalcain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.  Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah\, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech\, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me\, a young man for striking me.  If Cain is avenged sevenfold\, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”\n  And Adam knew his wife again\, and she bore a son and called his name Seth\, for she said\, “God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel\, for Cain slew him.”  To Seth also a son was born\, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 5:15-6:3\nDrink water from your own cistern\, flowing water from your own well.  Should your springs be scattered abroad\, streams of water in the streets?  Let them be for yourself alone\, and not for strangers with you.  Let your fountain be blessed\, and rejoice in the wife of your youth\, a lovely hind\, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight\, be infatuated always with her love.  Why should you be infatuated\, my son\, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?  For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD\, and he watches all his paths.  The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him\, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.  He dies for lack of discipline\, and because of his great folly he is lost.\n  My son\, if you have become surety for your neighbor\, have given your pledge for a stranger; if you are snared in the utterance of your lips\, caught in the words of your mouth; then do this\, my son\, and save yourself\, for you have come into your neighbor’s power: go\, hasten\, and importune your neighbor.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/gerasimus-the-righteous-of-jordan-2/
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SUMMARY:Conon the Gardener
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/05/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Conon the Gardener; Parthenios the New Martyr who contested in Didymoteichos; Mark the Ascetic; Righteous Father Mark of Athens; John the Bulgarian; Mark the Faster; George the New-Martyr of Rapsani; Eulogios the Martyr; Eulabios the Martyr; Conon the Isaurian; Archelaos the Martyr of Egypt\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 6:1-12\nIn the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne\, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.  Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face\, and with two he covered his feet\, and with two he flew.  And one called to another and said: “Holy\, holy\, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.”  And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called\, and the house was filled with smoke.  And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips\, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King\, the LORD of hosts!”  Then flew one of the seraphim to me\, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar.  And he touched my mouth\, and said: “Behold\, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away\, and your sin forgiven.”  And I heard the voice of the Lord saying\, “Whom shall I send\, and who will go for us?” Then I said\, “Here am I! Send me.”  And he said\, “Go\, and say to this people: ‘Hear and hear\, but do not understand; see and see\, but do not perceive.’  Make the heart of this people fat\, and their ears heavy\, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes\, and hear with their ears\, and understand with their hearts\, and turn and be healed.”  Then I said\, “How long\, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant\, and houses without men\, and the land is utterly desolate\, and the LORD removes men far away\, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.”\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 5:1-24\n This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man\, he made him in the likeness of God.  Male and female he created them\, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.  When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years\, he became the father of a son in his own likeness\, after his image\, and named him Seth.  The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years; and he had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.\n When Seth had lived a hundred and five years\, he became the father of Enosh.  Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years\, and had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.\n When Enosh had lived ninety years\, he became the father of Kenan.  Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years\, and had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.\n When Kenan had lived seventy years\, he became the father of Mahalalel.  Kenan lived after the birth of Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years\, and had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.\n When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years\, he became the father of Jared.  Mahalalel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years\, and had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.\n When Jared had lived a hundred and sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.  Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years\, and had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.  When Enoch had lived sixty-five years\, he became the father of Methuselah.  Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years\, and had other sons and daughters.  Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.  Enoch walked with God; and he was not\, for God took him.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 6:3-20\nThen do this\, my son\, and save yourself\, for you have come into your neighbor’s power: go\, hasten\, and importune your neighbor.  Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter\, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.\n  Go to the ant\, O sluggard; consider her ways\, and be wise.  Without having any chief\, officer or ruler\, she prepares her food in summer\, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.  How long will you lie there\, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?  A little sleep\, a little slumber\, a little folding of the hands to rest\, and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond\, and want like an armed man.  A worthless person\, a wicked man\, goes about with crooked speech\, winks with his eyes\, scrapes with his feet\, points with his finger\, with perverted heart devises evil\, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.\n  There are six things which the LORD hates\, seven which are an abomination to him:  haughty eyes\, a lying tongue\, and hands that shed innocent blood\, a heart that devises wicked plans\, feet that make haste to run to evil\, a false witness who breathes out lies\, and a man who sows discord among brothers.  My son\, keep your father’s commandment\, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/conon-the-gardener-3/
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SUMMARY:42 Martyrs of Amorion in Phrygia
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/06/2026\nSaints and Feasts: 42 Martyrs of Amorion in Phrygia; Finding the Precious Cross by St. Helen; Hesychios the Wonderworker\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 7:1-14\nIn the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham\, son of Uzziah\, king of Judah\, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it\, but they could not conquer it.  When the house of David was told\, “Syria is in league with Ephraim\,” his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.\nAnd the LORD said to Isaiah\, “Go forth to meet Ahaz\, you and Shearjashub your son\, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field\, and say to him\, ‘Take heed\, be quiet\, do not fear\, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands\, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.  Because Syria\, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah\, has devised evil against you\, saying\,  “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it\, and let us conquer it for ourselves\, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it\,” thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand\, and it shall not come to pass.  For the head of Syria is Damascus\, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.)  And the head of Ephraim is Samaria\, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe\, surely you shall not be established.'”\nAgain the LORD spoke to Ahaz\,  “Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”  But Ahaz said\, “I will not ask\, and I will not put the LORD to the test.”  And he said\, “Hear then\, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men\, that you weary my God also?  Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold\, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son\, and shall call his name Immanuel.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 5:32-6:8\n After Noah was five hundred years old\, Noah became the father of Shem\, Ham\, and Japheth.  When men began to multiply on the face of the ground\, and daughters were born to them\, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.  Then the LORD said\, “My spirit shall not abide in man for ever\, for he is flesh\, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days\, and also afterward\, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men\, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old\, the men of renown.\n The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth\, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth\, and it grieved him to his heart.  So the LORD said\, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground\, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air\, for I am sorry that I have made them.”  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 6:20-7:1\nMy son\, keep your father’s commandment\, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.  Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.  When you walk\, they will lead you; when you lie down\, they will watch over you; and when you awake\, they will talk with you.  For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light\, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life\, to preserve you from the evil woman\, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.  Do not desire her beauty in your heart\, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread\, but an adulteress stalks a man’s very life.  Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?  Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?  So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.  Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?  And if he is caught\, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.  He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.  Wounds and dishonor will he get\, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.  For jealousy makes a man furious\, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.  He will accept no compensation\, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.  My son\, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/42-martyrs-of-amorion-in-phrygia-3/
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SUMMARY:Second Saturday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/07/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Second Saturday of Lent; The Holy Martyred Bishops of Cherson: Basileus\, Ephraim\, Eugene\, Capito\, Aetherius\, Agathodorus\, and Elpidius; Lavrentios of Megara\, the Righteous; Paul the Simple\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 3:12-16\nBRETHREN\, take care lest there be in any of you an evil\, unbelieving heart\, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day\, as long as it is called “today\,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we share in Christ\, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end\, while it is said\, “Today\, when you hear his voice\, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?\nGospel Reading: Mark 1:35-44\nAt that time\, Jesus went out to a lonely place\, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him pursued him\, and they found him and said to him\, “Everyone is searching for you.” And he said to them\, “Let us go on to the next towns\, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came out.” And he went throughout all Galilee\, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. And a leper came to him beseeching him\, and kneeling said to him\, “If you will\, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity\, he stretched out his hand and touched him\, and said to him\, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him\, and he was made clean. And he sternly charged him\, and sent him away at once\, and said to him\, “See that you say nothing to any one; but go\, show yourself to a priest\, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded\, for a proof to them.”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/second-saturday-of-lent-3/
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SUMMARY:Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/08/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas; Theophylact the Confessor\, Bishop of Nicomedia; Hermas the Apostle of the 70; Dometios the Righteous; Paul the Confessor; Felix of Burgundy\, Enlightener of East Anglia\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:36-53\nAt that time\, having risen from the dead\, Jesus went up and stood among His disciples and said to them\, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and frightened\, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And He said to them\, “Why are you troubled\, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See My hands and My feet\, that it is I Myself; handle Me\, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when He had said this\, He showed them His hands and His feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy\, and wondered\, He said to them\, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave Him a piece of broiled fish \, and He took it and ate before them. Then He said to them\, “These are My words which I spoke to you\, while I was still with you\, that everything written about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures\, and said to them\, “Thus it is written\, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead\, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name in all nations\, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold\, I send the promise of My Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” Then He led them out as far as Bethany\, and lifting up His hands\, He blessed them. While He blessed them\, He parted from them\, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him\, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy\, and were continually in the Temple blessing God.\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 1:10-14; 2:1-3\nIN THE BEGINNING\, Thou\, Lord\, didst found the earth in the beginning\, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; they will perish\, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment\, like a mantle thou wilt roll them up\, and they will be changed. But thou art the same\, and thy years will never end.” But to what angel has he ever said\, “Sit at my right hand\, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet?” Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve\, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?\nTherefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard\, lest we drift away from it. For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution\, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord\, and it was attested to us by those who heard him.\nGospel Reading: Mark 2:1-12\nAt that time\, Jesus entered Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together\, so that there was no longer room for them\, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. And they came\, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd\, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening\, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith\, he said to the paralytic\, “My son\, your sins are forgiven.” Now some of the scribes were sitting there\, questioning in their hearts\, “Why does this man speak thus? It is a blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” And immediately Jesus\, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves\, said to them\, “Why do you question thus in your hearts? Which is easier\, to say to the paralytic\, ‘Your sins are forgiven\,’ or to say\, ‘Rise\, take up your pallet and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”-he said to the paralytic-“I say to you\, rise\, take up your pallet and go home.” And he rose\, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God\, saying\, “We never saw anything like this!”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/sunday-of-st-gregory-palamas-3/
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SUMMARY:The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/09/2026\nSaints and Feasts: The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia; Caesarios the Righteous\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 21:12-19\nThe Lord said to his disciples\, “Beware of men who will lay their hands on you and persecute you\, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons\, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake. This will be a time for you to bear testimony. Settle it therefore in your minds\, not to meditate beforehand how to answer; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom\, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends\, and some of you they will put to death; you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives.”\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 12:1-10\nBRETHREN\, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses\, let us also lay aside every weight\, and sin which clings so closely\, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us\, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith\, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross\, despising the shame\, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself\, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? “My son\, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord\, nor lose courage when you are punished by him. For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves\, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline\, in which all have participated\, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this\, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits\, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time at their pleasure\, but He disciplines us for our good\, that we may share his holiness.\nGospel Reading: Matthew 20:1-16\nThe Lord said this parable\, “The kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day\, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; and to them he said\, ‘You go into the vineyard too\, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour\, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them\, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him\, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them\, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ And when evening came\, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward\, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages\, beginning with the last\, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came\, each of them received a denarius. Now when the first came\, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder\, saying\, ‘These last worked only one hour\, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ But he replied to one of them\, ‘Friend\, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you\, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’ So the last will be first\, and the first last. For many are called\, but few are chosen.”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/the-holy-forty-martyrs-of-sebastia/
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SUMMARY:Quadratus the Martyr & his Companions
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/10/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Quadratus the Martyr & his Companions; Anastasia of Alexandria; Michael Mauroudes the New-Martyr\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 9:9-10:4\nThus says the LORD: “And all the people will know\, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria\, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:  ‘The bricks have fallen\, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down\, but we will put cedars in their place.'”  So the LORD raises adversaries against them\, and stirs up their enemies.  The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.  The people did not turn to him who smote them\, nor seek the LORD of hosts.  So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail\, palm branch and reed in one day – the elder and honored man is the head\, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail; for those who lead this people lead them astray\, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.  Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men\, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is godless and an evildoer\, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.  For wickedness burns like a fire\, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest\, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.  Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned\, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother.  They snatch on the right\, but are still hungry\, and they devour on the left\, but are not satisfied; each devours his neighbor’s flesh\, Manasseh\, Ephraim\, and Ephraim\, Manasseh\, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.\n Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees\, and the writers who keep writing oppression\, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right\, that widows may be their spoil\, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!  What will you do on the day of punishment\, in the storm which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help\, and where will you leave your wealth?  Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 7:1-5\n Then the LORD said to Noah\, “Go into the ark\, you and all your household\, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.  Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals\, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean\, the male and his mate; and seven pairs of the birds of the air also\, male and female\, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.  For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”  And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 8:32-9:11\nAnd now\, my sons\, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.  Hear instruction and be wise\, and do not neglect it.  Happy is the man who listens to me\, watching daily at my gates\, waiting beside my doors.  For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD; but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”  Wisdom has built her house\, she has set up her seven pillars.  She has slaughtered her beasts\, she has mixed her wine\, she has also set her table.  She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town\,  “Whoever is simple\, let him turn in here!” To him who is without sense she says\,  “Come\, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.  Leave simpleness\, and live\, and walk in the way of insight.”  He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse\, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.  Do not reprove a scoffer\, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man\, and he will love you.  Give instruction to a wise man\, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom\, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.  For by me your days will be multiplied\, and years will be added to your life.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/quadratus-the-martyr-his-companions-2/
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SUMMARY:Sophronius\, Patriarch of Jerusalem
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/11/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sophronius\, Patriarch of Jerusalem; Theodora the Righteous; Pionios the Presbyter; George the New Wonderworker of Constantinople; Trophimos and Thallos the Martyrs\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 10:12-20\n When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.  For he says: “By the strength of my hand I have done it\, and by my wisdom\, for I have understanding; I have removed the boundaries of peoples\, and have plundered their treasures; like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.  My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing\, or opened the mouth\, or chirped.”  Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it\, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it\, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!  Therefore the Lord\, the LORD of hosts\, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors\, and under his glory a burning will be kindled\, like the burning of fire.  The light of Israel will become a fire\, and his Holy One a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.  The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will destroy\, both soul and body\, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.  The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.  In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean upon him that smote them\, but will lean upon the LORD\, the Holy One of Israel\, in truth.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 7:6-9\n Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.  And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark\, to escape the waters of the flood.  Of clean animals\, and of animals that are not clean\, and of birds\, and of everything that creeps on the ground\, two and two\, male and female\, went into the ark with Noah\, as God had commanded Noah.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 9:12-18\nIf you are wise\, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff\, you alone will bear it.  A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no shame.  She sits at the door of her house\, she takes a seat on the high places of the town\, calling to those who pass by\, who are going straight on their way\,  “Whoever is simple\, let him turn in here!” And to him who is without sense she says\,  “Stolen water is sweet\, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”  But he does not know that the dead are there\, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/sophronius-patriarch-of-jerusalem-2/
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SUMMARY:Theophanes the Confessor
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/12/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Theophanes the Confessor; Symeon the New Theologian; Gregory Dialogos\, Bishop of Rome; Phineas\, grandson of Prophet Aaron; Paul Aurelian\, Bishop of Brittany\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 11:10-12:2\n Thus says the LORD: In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek\, and his dwellings shall be glorious.\n In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people\, from Assyria\, from Egypt\, from Pathros\, from Ethiopia\, from Elam\, from Shinar\, from Hamath\, and from the coastlands of the sea.  He will raise an ensign for the nations\, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel\, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.  The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart\, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah\, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.  But they shall swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines in the west\, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab\, and the Ammonites shall obey them.  And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching wind\, and smite it into seven channels that men may cross dryshod.  And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant which is left of his people\, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.\n You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to thee\, O LORD\, for though thou wast angry with me\, thy anger turned away\, and thou didst comfort me.  “Behold\, God is my salvation; I will trust\, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song\, and he has become my salvation.”\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 7:11-8:3\n In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life\, in the second month\, on the seventeenth day of the month\, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth\, and the windows of the heavens were opened.  And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.  On the very same day Noah and his sons\, Shem and Ham and Japheth\, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark\, they and every beast according to its kind\, and all the cattle according to their kinds\, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind\, and every bird according to its kind\, every bird of every sort.  They went into the ark with Noah\, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.  And they that entered\, male and female of all flesh\, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.\n The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased\, and bore up the ark\, and it rose high above the earth.  The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.  And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; the waters prevailed above the mountains\, covering them fifteen cubits deep.  And all flesh died that moved upon the earth\, birds\, cattle\, beasts\, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth\, and every man; everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.  He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground\, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left\, and those that were with him in the ark.  And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.  But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth\, and the waters subsided; the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed\, the rain from the heavens was restrained\, and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 10:1-22\nA wise son makes a glad father\, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.  Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit\, but righteousness delivers from death.  The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry\, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.  A slack hand causes poverty\, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.  A son who gathers in summer is prudent\, but a son who sleeps in harvest brings shame.  Blessings are on the head of the righteous\, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.  The memory of the righteous is a blessing\, but the name of the wicked will rot.  The wise of heart will heed commandments\, but a prating fool will come to ruin.  He who walks in integrity walks securely\, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.  He who winks the eye causes trouble\, but he who boldly reproves makes peace.  The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life\, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.  Hatred stirs up strife\, but love covers all offenses.  On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found\, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.  Wise men lay up knowledge\, but the babbling of a fool brings ruin near.  A rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.  The wage of the righteous leads to life\, the gain of the wicked to sin.  He who heeds instruction is on the path to life\, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.  He who conceals hatred has lying lips\, and he who utters slander is a fool.  When words are many\, transgression is not lacking\, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.  The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the mind of the wicked is of little worth.  The lips of the righteous feed many\, but fools die for lack of sense.  The blessing of the LORD makes rich\, and he adds no sorrow with it.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/theophanes-the-confessor-3/
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SUMMARY:Removal of the relics of Nicephorus\, Patriarch of Constantinople
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/13/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Removal of the relics of Nicephorus\, Patriarch of Constantinople; Pouplios the Martyr\, Bishop of Athens; Christina the Martyr of Persia; Gerald\, Bishop of Mayo\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 13:2-13\n On a bare hill raise a signal\, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.  I myself have commanded my consecrated ones\, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger\, my proudly exulting ones.\n Hark\, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark\, an uproar of kingdoms\, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.  They come from a distant land\, from the end of the heavens\, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation\, to destroy the whole earth.\n Wail\, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!  Therefore all hands will be feeble\, and every man’s heart will melt\, and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.\n Behold\, the day of the LORD comes\, cruel\, with wrath and fierce anger\, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.  I will punish the world for its evil\, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant\, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.  I will make men more rare than fine gold\, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.  Therefore I will make the heavens tremble\, and the earth will be shaken out of its place\, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 8:4-21\n And in the seventh month\, on the seventeenth day of the month\, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat.  And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month\, on the first day of the month\, the tops of the mountains were seen.\n At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made\, and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.  Then he sent forth a dove from him\, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground; but the dove found no place to set her foot\, and she returned to him to the ark\, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.  He waited another seven days\, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came back to him in the evening\, and lo\, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.  Then he waited another seven days\, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.\n In the six hundred and first year\, in the first month\, the first day of the month\, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark\, and looked\, and behold\, the face of the ground was dry.  In the second month\, on the twenty-seventh day of the month\, the earth was dry.  Then God said to Noah\,  “Go forth from the ark\, you and your wife\, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.  Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh – birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth – that they may breed abundantly on the earth\, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”  So Noah went forth\, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.  And every beast\, every creeping thing\, and every bird\, everything that moves upon the earth\, went forth by families out of the ark.\n Then Noah built an altar to the LORD\, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird\, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor\, the LORD said in his heart\, “I will never again curse the ground because of man\, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.”\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 10:31-11:12\nThe mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom\, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable\, but the mouth of the wicked\, what is perverse.  A false balance is an abomination to the LORD\, but a just weight is his delight.  When pride comes\, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.  The integrity of the upright guides them\, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.  Riches do not profit in the day of wrath\, but righteousness delivers from death.  The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight\, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.  The righteousness of the upright delivers them\, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.  When the wicked dies\, his hope perishes\, and the expectation of the godless comes to nought.  The righteous is delivered from trouble\, and the wicked gets into it instead.  With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor\, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.  When it goes well with the righteous\, the city rejoices; and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.  By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted\, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.  He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense\, but a man of understanding remains silent.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/removal-of-the-relics-of-nicephorus-patriarch-of-constantinople-3/
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SUMMARY:Third Saturday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/14/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Third Saturday of Lent; Benedict the Righteous of Nursia; Euschemon the Confessor\, Bishop of Lampasakos\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 10:32-38\nBrethren\, recall the former days when\, after you were enlightened\, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings\, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction\, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.  For you had compassion on the prisoners\, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property\, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.  Therefore do not throw away your confidence\, which has a great reward.  For you have need of endurance\, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.  “For yet a little while\, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry; but my righteous one shall live by faith.”\nGospel Reading: Mark 2:14-17\nAt that time\, as Jesus passed on\, he saw Levi the son of Alphaios sitting at the tax office\, and he said to him\, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as he sat at table in his house\, many tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees\, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors\, said to his disciples\, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it\, he said to them\, “Those who are well have no need of a physician\, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous\, but sinners.”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/third-saturday-of-lent-3/
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SUMMARY:Sunday of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/15/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sunday of the Holy Cross; Agapius the Martyr & His Companions; Manuel the New Martyr of Crete; Holy Apostle Aristobulos of the Seventy\, Bishop of Britain\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:1-10\nOn the first day of the week\, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early\, while it was still dark\, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran\, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple\, the one whom Jesus loved\, and said to them\, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb\, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” Peter then came out with the other disciple\, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran\, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in\, he saw the linen cloths lying there\, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came\, following him\, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying and the napkin\, which had been on His head\, not lying with the linen cloths\, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple\, who reached the tomb first\, also went in\, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture\, that He must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:1-6\nBRETHREN\, since we have a high priest who has passed through the heavens\, Jesus\, the Son of God\, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses\, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are\, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace\, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God\, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward\, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. And one does not take the honor upon himself\, but he is called by God\, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest\, but was appointed by him who said to him\, “Thou art my Son\, today I have begotten thee”; as he says also in another place\, “Thou art a priest for ever\, after the order of Melchizedek.”\nGospel Reading: Mark 8:34-38; 9:1\nThe Lord said: “If anyone wishes to come after me\, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man\, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation\, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed\, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” And he said to them\, “Truly\, I say to you\, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/sunday-of-the-holy-cross-3/
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SUMMARY:Sabine the Martyr of Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/16/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sabine the Martyr of Egypt; Christodulus the Wonderworker of Patmos; Aristovoulos\, Apostle of the 70; Julian the Martyr; Romanos the Hieromartyr of Parium\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 14:24-32\n The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned\, so shall it be\, and as I have purposed\, so shall it stand\, that I will break the Assyrian in my land\, and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from them\, and his burden from their shoulder.”  This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.  For the LORD of hosts has purposed\, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out\, and who will turn it back?  In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:  “Rejoice not\, O Philistia\, all of you\, that the rod which smote you is broken\, for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder\, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.  And the first-born of the poor will feed\, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine\, and your remnant I will slay.  Wail\, O gate; cry\, O city; melt in fear\, O Philistia\, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north\, and there is no straggler in his ranks.”  What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The LORD has founded Zion\, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 8:21-9:7\n And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor\, the LORD said in his heart\, “I will never again curse the ground because of man\, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.  While the earth remains\, seedtime and harvest\, cold and heat\, summer and winter\, day and night\, shall not cease.”\n And God blessed Noah and his sons\, and said to them\, “Be fruitful and multiply\, and fill the earth.  The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth\, and upon every bird of the air\, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.  Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants\, I give you everything.  Only you shall not eat flesh with its life\, that is\, its blood.  For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.  Whoever sheds the blood of man\, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.  And you\, be fruitful and multiply\, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it.”\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 11:19-12:6\nHe who is steadfast in righteousness will live\, but he who pursues evil will die.  Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the LORD\, but those of blameless ways are his delight.  Be assured\, an evil man will not go unpunished\, but those who are righteous will be delivered.  Like a gold ring in a swine’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.  The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked in wrath.  One man gives freely\, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give\, and only suffers want.  A liberal man will be enriched\, and one who waters will himself be watered.  The people curse him who holds back grain\, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.  He who diligently seeks good seeks favor\, but evil comes to him who searches for it.  He who trusts in his riches will wither\, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.  He who troubles his household will inherit wind\, and the fool will be servant to the wise.  The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life\, but lawlessness takes away lives.  If the righteous is requited on earth\, how much more the wicked and the sinner!  Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge\, but he who hates reproof is stupid.  A good man obtains favor from the LORD\, but a man of evil devices he condemns.  A man is not established by wickedness\, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.  A good wife is the crown of her husband\, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.  The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are treacherous.  The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood\, but the mouth of the upright delivers men.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/sabine-the-martyr-of-egypt/
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SUMMARY:Alexis the Man of God
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/17/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Alexis the Man of God; Paul the Righteous Martyr; Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland; Marinos the Martyr; Theocteristos the Confessor\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 25:1-9\n O LORD\, thou art my God; I will exalt thee\, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things\, plans formed of old\, faithful and sure.  For thou hast made the city a heap\, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more\, it will never be rebuilt.  Therefore strong peoples will glorify thee; cities of ruthless nations will fear thee.  For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor\, a stronghold to the needy in his distress\, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the blast of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall\, like heat in a dry place. Thou dost subdue the noise of the aliens; as heat by the shade of a cloud\, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.\n On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things\, a feast of wine on the lees\, of fat things full of marrow\, of wine on the lees well refined.  And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples\, the veil that is spread over all nations.  He will swallow up death for ever\, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces\, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken.  It will be said on that day\, “Lo\, this is our God; we have waited for him\, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 9:8-17\n Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him\,  “Behold\, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you\, and with every living creature that is with you\, the birds\, the cattle\, and every beast of the earth with you\, as many as came out of the ark.  I establish my covenant with you\, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood\, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”  And God said\, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you\, for all future generations:  I set my bow in the cloud\, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds\, I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  When the bow is in the clouds\, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”  God said to Noah\, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 12:8-22\nA man is commended according to his good sense\, but one of perverse mind is despised.  Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.  A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast\, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.  He who tills his land will have plenty of bread\, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.  The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin\, but the root of the righteous stands firm.  An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips\, but the righteous escapes from trouble.  From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good\, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him.  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes\, but a wise man listens to advice.  The vexation of a fool is known at once\, but the prudent man ignores an insult.  He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence\, but a false witness utters deceit.  There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts\, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.  Truthful lips endure for ever\, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.  Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil\, but those who plan good have joy.  No ill befalls the righteous\, but the wicked are filled with trouble.  Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD\, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/alexis-the-man-of-god-2/
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SUMMARY:Cyril\, Patriarch of Jerusalem
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/18/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Cyril\, Patriarch of Jerusalem; Trophimos & Eukarpion\, Monk-martyrs of Nicomedea; Edward the Martyr\, King of England\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 26:21-27:9\n For behold\, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity\, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her\, and will no more cover her slain.  In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent\, Leviathan the twisting serpent\, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.\n In that day: “A pleasant vineyard\, sing of it!  I\, the LORD\, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest any one harm it\, I guard it night and day;  I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them\, I would burn them up together.  Or let them lay hold of my protection\, let them make peace with me\, let them make peace with me.”\n In days to come Jacob shall take root\, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots\, and fill the whole world with fruit.\n Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?  Measure by measure\, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.  Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated\, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces\, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 9:18-10:1\nThe sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem\, Ham\, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.  These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled.\nNoah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard; and he drank of the wine\, and became drunk\, and lay uncovered in his tent.  And Ham\, the father of Canaan\, saw the nakedness of his father\, and told his two brothers outside.  Then Shem and Japheth took a garment\, laid it upon both their shoulders\, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away\, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.  When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him\, he said\, “Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”  He also said\, “Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.  God enlarge Japheth\, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.”  After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.  All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.  These are the generations of the sons of Noah\, Shem\, Ham\, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the flood.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 12:23-13:9\nA prudent man conceals his knowledge\, but fools proclaim their folly.  The hand of the diligent will rule\, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.  Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down\, but a good word makes him glad.  A righteous man turns away from evil\, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.  A slothful man will not catch his prey\, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.  In the path of righteousness is life\, but the way of error leads to death.  A wise son hears his father’s instruction\, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.  From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good\, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.  He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.  The soul of the sluggard craves\, and gets nothing\, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.  A righteous man hates falsehood\, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully.  Righteousness guards him whose way is upright\, but sin overthrows the wicked.  One man pretends to be rich\, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor\, yet has great wealth.  The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth\, but a poor man has no means of redemption.  The light of the righteous rejoices\, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/cyril-patriarch-of-jerusalem-3/
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SUMMARY:The Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/19/2026\nSaints and Feasts: The Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria; Demetrios the New Martyr\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 28:14-22\n Thus says the LORD\, you scoffers\, who rule this people in Jerusalem!  Because you have said\, “We have made a covenant with death\, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge\, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”; therefore thus says the Lord GOD\, “Behold\, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone\, a tested stone\, a precious cornerstone\, of a sure foundation: ‘He who believes will not be in haste.’  And I will make justice the line\, and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies\, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”  Then your covenant with death will be annulled\, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.  As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through\, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.  For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it\, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.  For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim\, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed – strange is his deed! and to work his work – alien is his work!  Now therefore do not scoff\, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 10:32-11:9\n These are the families of the sons of Noah\, according to their genealogies\, in their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.  Now the whole earth had one language and few words.  And as men migrated from the east\, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.  And they said to one another\, “Come\, let us make bricks\, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone\, and bitumen for mortar.  Then they said\, “Come\, let us build ourselves a city\, and a tower with its top in the heavens\, and let us make a name for ourselves\, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower\, which the sons of men had built.  And the LORD said\, “Behold\, they are one people\, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.  Come\, let us go down\, and there confuse their language\, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”  So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth\, and they left off building the city.  Therefore its name was called Babel\, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 13:19-14:6\nA desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul; but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.  He who walks with wise men becomes wise\, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.  Misfortune pursues sinners\, but prosperity rewards the righteous.  A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children\, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.  The fallow ground of the poor yields much food\, but it is swept away through injustice.  He who spares the rod hates his son\, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.  The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite\, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.  Wisdom builds her house\, but folly with her own hands tears it down.  He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD\, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.  The talk of a fool is a rod for his back\, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.  Where there are no oxen\, there is no grain; but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.  A faithful witness does not lie\, but a false witness breathes out lies.  A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain\, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/the-holy-martyrs-chrysanthus-and-daria-3/
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SUMMARY:Righteous Fathers slain at the Monastery of St. Savas
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/20/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Righteous Fathers slain at the Monastery of St. Savas; Myron the New Martyr of Crete; Cuthbert the Wonderworker\, Bishop of Lindisfarne; Photini the Samaritan Woman\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 29:13-23\n And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips\, while their hearts are far from me\, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote; therefore\, behold\, I will again do marvelous things with this people\, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish\, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”  Woe to those who hide deep from the LORD their counsel\, whose deeds are in the dark\, and who say\, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”  You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay; that the thing made should say of its maker\, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it\, “He has no understanding”?\n Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field\, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?  In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book\, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.  The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD\, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.  For the ruthless shall come to nought and the scoffer cease\, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off\, who by a word make a man out to be an offender\, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate\, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.\n Therefore thus says the LORD\, who redeemed Abraham\, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no more be ashamed\, no more shall his face grow pale.  For when he sees his children\, the work of my hands\, in his midst\, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob\, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 12:1-7\n Now the LORD said to Abram\, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  And I will make of you a great nation\, and I will bless you\, and make your name great\, so that you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you\, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.”\n So Abram went\, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.  And Abram took Sarai his wife\, and Lot his brother’s son\, and all their possessions which they had gathered\, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan\, Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem\, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.  Then the LORD appeared to Abram\, and said\, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD\, who had appeared to him.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 14:15-26\nThe simple believes everything\, but the prudent looks where he is going.  A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil\, but a fool throws off restraint and is careless.  A man of quick temper acts foolishly\, but a man of discretion is patient.  The simple acquire folly\, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.  The evil bow down before the good\, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.  The poor is disliked even by his neighbor\, but the rich has many friends.  He who despises his neighbor is a sinner\, but happy is he who is kind to the poor.  Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness.  In all toil there is profit\, but mere talk tends only to want.  The crown of the wise is their wisdom\, but folly is the garland of fools.  A truthful witness saves lives\, but one who utters lies is a betrayer.  In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence\, and his children will have a refuge.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/righteous-fathers-slain-at-the-monastery-of-st-savas-3/
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SUMMARY:Fourth Saturday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/21/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Fourth Saturday of Lent; James the Confessor; Thomas I\, Patriarch of Constantinople; Philemon and Domninos\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 6:9-12\nBRETHREN\, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation. For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints\, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end\, so that you may not be sluggish\, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.\nGospel Reading: Mark 7:31-37\nAt that time\, Jesus returned from the region of Tyre\, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee\, through the region of Dekapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him. And taking him aside from the multitude privately\, he put his fingers into his ears\, and he spat and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven\, he sighed\, and said to him\, “Ephphatha\,” that is\, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened\, his tongue was released\, and he spoke plainly. And he charged them to tell no one; but the more he charged them\, the more zealously they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure\, saying\, “He has done all things well: he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/fourth-saturday-of-lent-3/
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SUMMARY:Sunday of St. John Climacus
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/22/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sunday of St. John Climacus; Basil the Holy Martyr of Ancyra; Kalliniki & Vassilisa the Martyrs; Euthemios the New Martyr\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:11-18\nAt that time\, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb\, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb\, and she saw two angels in white\, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain\, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her\, “Woman\, why are you weeping?” She said to them\, “Because they have taken away my Lord\, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” Saying this\, she turned round and saw Jesus standing\, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her\, “Woman\, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?” Supposing Him to be the gardener\, she said to Him\, “Sir\, if you have carried Him away\, tell me where you have laid Him\, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her\, “Mary.” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew\, “Rabboni\,” which means Teacher. Jesus said to her\, “Do not touch Me\, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them\, I am ascending to My Father and your Father\, to My God and your God.” Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples\, “I have seen the Lord\,” and she told them that He had said these things to her.\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 6:13-20\nBRETHREN\, when God made a promise to Abraham\, since he had no one greater by whom to swear\, he swore to himself\, saying\, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” And thus Abraham\, having patiently endured\, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves\, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose\, he interposed with an oath\, so that through two unchangeable things\, in which it is impossible that God should prove false\, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul\, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain\, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf\, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.\nGospel Reading: Mark 9:17-31\nAt that time\, a man came to Jesus kneeling and saying: “Teacher\, I brought my son to you\, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out\, and they were not able.” And he answered them\, “O faithless generation\, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” And they brought the boy to him; and when the spirit saw him\, immediately it convulsed the boy\, and he fell on the ground and rolled about\, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father\, “How long has he had this?” And he said\, “From childhood. And it has often cast him into the fire and into the water\, to destroy him; but if you can do anything\, have pity on us and help us.” And Jesus said to him\, “If you can! All things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said\, “I believe; help my unbelief!” And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together\, he rebuked the unclean spirit\, saying to it\, “You dumb and deaf spirit\, I command you\, come out of him\, and never enter him again.” And after crying out and convulsing him terribly\, it came out\, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said\, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up\, and he arose. And when he had entered the house\, his disciples asked him privately\, “Why could we not cast it out?” And he said to them\, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting.” They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; for he was teaching his disciples\, saying to them\, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men\, and they will kill him; and when he is killed\, after three days he will rise.”
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/sunday-of-st-john-climacus-3/
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SUMMARY:The Holy Righteous Martyr Nicon and His 199 Disciples
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/23/2026\nSaints and Feasts: The Holy Righteous Martyr Nicon and His 199 Disciples; Anatolios & Protoleon the Martyrs converted by the martyrdom of St. George; Luke the New Martyr of Mytilene\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 37:33-38:6\n“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city\, or shoot an arrow there\, or come before it with a shield\, or cast up a siege mound against it.  By the way that he came\, by the same he shall return\, and he shall not come into this city\, says the LORD.  For I will defend this city to save it\, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”  And the angel of the LORD went forth\, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning\, behold\, these were all dead bodies.  Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed\, and went home and dwelt at Nineveh.  And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god\, Adrammelech and Sharezer\, his sons\, slew him with the sword\, and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.\n  In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him\, and said to him\, “Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order; for you shall die\, you shall not recover.”  Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall\, and prayed to the LORD\, and said\, “Remember now\, O LORD\, I beseech thee\, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart\, and have done what is good in thy sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.  Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:  “Go and say to Hezekiah\, Thus says the LORD\, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer\, I have seen your tears; behold\, I will add fifteen years to your life.  I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria\, and defend this city.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 13:12-18\n Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan\, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.  Now the men of Sodom were wicked\, great sinners against the LORD.\n The LORD said to Abram\, after Lot had separated from him\, “Lift up your eyes\, and look from the place where you are\, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever.  I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth\, your descendants also can be counted.  Arise\, walk through the length and the breadth of the land\, for I will give it to you.”  So Abram moved his tent\, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre\, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 14:27-15:4\nThe fear of the LORD is a fountain of life\, that one may avoid the snares of death.  In a multitude of people is the glory of a king\, but without people a prince is ruined.  He who is slow to anger has great understanding\, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.  A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh\, but passion makes the bones rot.  He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker\, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.  The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing\, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.  Wisdom abides in the mind of a man of understanding\, but it is not known in the heart of fools.  Righteousness exalts a nation\, but sin is a reproach to any people.  A servant who deals wisely has the king’s favor\, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.  A soft answer turns away wrath\, but a harsh word stirs up anger.  The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge\, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.  The eyes of the LORD are in every place\, keeping watch on the evil and the good.  A gentle tongue is a tree of life\, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/the-holy-righteous-martyr-nicon-and-his-199-disciples/
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SUMMARY:Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/24/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos; Righteous Artemon\, Bishop of Seleucia; Our Holy Father Theonas\, Archbishop of Thessolonica; Zachariah the Recluse\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 40:18-31\nThus says the LORD: To whom then will you liken God\, or what likeness compare with him?  The idol! a workman casts it\, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold\, and casts for it silver chains.  He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.\n Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?  It is he who sits above the circle of the earth\, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain\, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nought\, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.\n Scarcely are they planted\, scarcely sown\, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth\, when he blows upon them\, and they wither\, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.\n To whom then will you compare me\, that I should be like him? Says the Holy One.  Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number\, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might\, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.\n Why do you say\, O Jacob\, and speak\, O Israel\, “My way is hid from the LORD\, and my right is disregarded by my God”?  Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God\, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary\, his understanding is unsearchable.  He gives power to the faint\, and to him who has no might he increases strength.  Even youths shall faint and be weary\, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength\, they shall mount up with wings like eagles\, they shall run and not be weary\, they shall walk and not faint.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 15:1-15\n After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision\, “Fear not\, Abram\, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”  But Abram said\, “O Lord GOD\, what wilt thou give me\, for I continue childless\, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”  And Abram said\, “Behold\, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my house will be my heir.”  And behold\, the word of the LORD came to him\, “This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall be your heir.”  And he brought him outside and said\, “Look toward heaven\, and number the stars\, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him\, “So shall your descendants be.”  And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.\n And he said to him\, “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans\, to give you this land to possess.”  But he said\, “O Lord GOD\, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”  He said to him\, “Bring me a heifer three years old\, a she-goat three years old\, a ram three years old\, a turtledove\, and a young pigeon.”  And he brought him all these\, cut them in two\, and laid each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.  And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses\, Abram drove them away.\n As the sun was going down\, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and lo\, a dread and great darkness fell upon him.  Then the LORD said to Abram\, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs\, and will be slaves there\, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years; but I will bring judgment on the nation which they serve\, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.  As for yourself\, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 15:7-19\nThe lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.  The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD\, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.  The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD\, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.  There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.  Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD\, how much more the hearts of men!  A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.  A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance\, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.  The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge\, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.  All the days of the afflicted are evil\, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.  Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.  A hot-tempered man stirs up strife\, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.  The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns\, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/forefeast-of-the-annunciation-of-the-theotokos-2/
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SUMMARY:Annunciation of the Theotokos
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/25/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Annunciation of the Theotokos\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 1:39-49\, 56\nIn those days\, Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country\, to a city of Judah\, and she entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary\, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry\, “Blessed are you among women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me\, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold\, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears\, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”\n  And Mary said\, “My soul magnifies the Lord\, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior\, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold\, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me\, and holy is his name.” And Mary remained with her about three months\, and returned to her home.\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 2:11-18\nBRETHREN\, he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren\, saying\, “I will proclaim thy name to my brethren\, in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.” And again\, “I will put my trust in him.” And again\, “Here am I\, and the children God has given me. Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood\, he himself likewise partook of the same nature\, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death\, that is\, the devil\, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage. For surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect\, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God\, to make expiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered and been tempted\, he is able to help those who are tempted.\nGospel Reading: Luke 1:24-38\nIn those days\, Elizabeth the wife of Zacharias conceived and for five months she hid herself\, saying\, “Thus the Lord had done to me in the days when he looked on me\, to take away my reproach among men.” In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth\, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph\, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said\, “Hail\, O favored one\, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you among women!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying\, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her\, “Do not be afraid\, Mary\, for you have found favor with God. And behold\, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son\, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great\, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David\, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.” And Mary said to the angel\, “How shall this be\, since I have no husband?” And the angel said to her\, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you\, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy\, the Son of God.\nAnd behold\, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.” And Mary said\, “Behold\, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
URL:https://behellenic.com/event/annunciation-of-the-theotokos-4/
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SUMMARY:5th Thursday of Lent: The Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/26/2026\nSaints and Feasts: 5th Thursday of Lent: The Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete; Synaxis in honor of the Archangel Gabriel; 26 Martyrs in Crimea; Irenaeus the Hieromartyr of Hungary\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 42:5-16\nThus says God\, the LORD\, who created the heavens and stretched them out\, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it\, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:  “I am the LORD\, I have called you in righteousness\, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people\, a light to the nations\, to open the eyes that are blind\, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon\, from the prison those who sit in darkness.  I am the LORD\, that is my name; my glory I give to no other\, nor my praise to graven images.  Behold\, the former things have come to pass\, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”\n  Sing to the LORD a new song\, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it\, the coastlands and their inhabitants.  Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice\, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy\, let them shout from the top of the mountains.  Let them give glory to the LORD\, and declare his praise in the coastlands.  The LORD goes forth like a mighty man\, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; he cries out\, he shouts aloud\, he shows himself mighty against his foes.\n  For a long time I have held my peace\, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail\, I will gasp and pant.  I will lay waste mountains and hills\, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands\, and dry up the pools.  And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not\, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light\, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do\, and I will not forsake them.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 18:20-33\n Then the LORD said\, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave\, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me; and if not\, I will know.”  So the men turned from there\, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the LORD.  Then Abraham drew near\, and said\, “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?  Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?  Far be it from thee to do such a thing\, to slay the righteous with the wicked\, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”  And the LORD said\, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city\, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”  Abraham answered\, “Behold\, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord\, I who am but dust and ashes.  Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said\, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”  Again he spoke to him\, and said\, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered\, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”  Then he said\, “Oh let not the Lord be angry\, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered\, “I will not do it\, if I find thirty there.”  He said\, “Behold\, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered\, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”  Then he said\, “Oh let not the Lord be angry\, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered\, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”  And the LORD went his way\, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 16:17-17:17\nThe highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.  Pride goes before destruction\, and a haughty spirit before a fall.  It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.  He who gives heed to the word will prosper\, and happy is he who trusts in the LORD.  The wise of heart is called a man of discernment\, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.  Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it\, but folly is the chastisement of fools.  The mind of the wise makes his speech judicious\, and adds persuasiveness to his lips.  Pleasant words are like a honeycomb\, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.  There is a way which seems right to a man\, but its end is the way to death.  A worker’s appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.  A worthless man plots evil\, and his speech is like a scorching fire.  A perverse man spreads strife\, and a whisperer separates close friends.  A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.  He who winks his eyes plans perverse things\, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.  A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.  He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty\, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.  The lot is cast into the lap\, but the decision is wholly from the LORD.\n  Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.  A slave who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully\, and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.  The crucible is for silver\, and the furnace is for gold\, and the LORD tries hearts.  An evildoer listens to wicked lips; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.  He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.  Grandchildren are the crown of the aged\, and the glory of sons is their fathers.  Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.  A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.  He who forgives an offense seeks love\, but he who repeats a matter alienates a friend.  A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.  An evil man seeks only rebellion\, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.  Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs\, rather than a fool in his folly.  If a man returns evil for good\, evil will not depart from his house.  The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.  He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.  Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom\, when he has no mind?  A friend loves at all times\, and a brother is born for adversity.
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SUMMARY:Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/27/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica; Paul\, Bishop of Corinth\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 45:11-17\nThus says the LORD\, the Holy One of Israel\, and his Maker: “Will you question me about my children\, or command me concerning the work of my hands?  I made the earth\, and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens\, and I commanded all their host.  I have aroused him in righteousness\, and I will make straight all his ways; he shall build my city and set my exiles free\, not for price or reward\,” says the LORD of hosts.\n Thus says the LORD: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia\, and the Sabeans\, men of stature\, shall come over to you and be yours\, they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you\, saying: ‘God is with you only\, and there is no other\, no god besides him.'”  Truly\, thou art a God who hidest thyself\, O God of Israel\, the Savior.  All of them are put to shame and confounded\, the makers of idols go in confusion together.  But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 22:1-18\n After these things God tested Abraham\, and said to him\, “Abraham!” And he said\, “Here am I.”  He said\, “Take your son\, your only son Isaac\, whom you love\, and go to the land of Moriah\, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”  So Abraham rose early in the morning\, saddled his ass\, and took two of his young men with him\, and his son Isaac; and he cut the wood for the burnt offering\, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.  Then Abraham said to his young men\, “Stay here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship\, and come again to you.”  And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering\, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.  And Isaac said to his father Abraham\, “My father! “And he said\, “Here am I\, my son.” He said\, “Behold\, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”  Abraham said\, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering\, my son.” So they went both of them together.\n When they came to the place of which God had told him\, Abraham built an altar there\, and laid the wood in order\, and bound Isaac his son\, and laid him on the altar\, upon the wood.  Then Abraham put forth his hand\, and took the knife to slay his son.  But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven\, and said\, “Abraham\, Abraham!” And he said\, “Here am I.”  He said\, “Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God\, seeing you have not withheld your son\, your only son\, from me.”  And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked\, and behold\, behind him was a ram\, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram\, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.  So Abraham called the name of that place The LORD will provide; as it is said to this day\, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”  And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven\, and said\, “By myself I have sworn\, says the LORD\, because you have done this\, and have not withheld your son\, your only son\, I will indeed bless you\, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies\, and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves\, because you have obeyed my voice.”\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 17:17-18:5\nA friend loves at all times\, and a brother is born for adversity.  A man without sense gives a pledge\, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.  He who loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.  A man of crooked mind does not prosper\, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.  A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.  A cheerful heart is a good medicine\, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.  A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.  A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom\, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.  A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.  To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good; to flog noble men is wrong.  He who restrains his words has knowledge\, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.  Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips\, he is deemed intelligent.\n  He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.  A fool takes no pleasure in understanding\, but only in expressing his opinion.  When wickedness comes\, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes disgrace.  The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.  It is not good to be partial to a wicked man\, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.
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SUMMARY:5th Saturday of Lent: The Akathist Hymn
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/28/2026\nSaints and Feasts: 5th Saturday of Lent: The Akathist Hymn; Hilarion the New; Herodion the Apostle of the 70; Stephen the Wonderworker\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 9:1-7\nBRETHREN\, the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was prepared\, the outer one\, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence; it is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies\, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold\, which contained a golden urn holding the manna\, and Aaron’s rod that budded\, and the tables of the covenant; above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. These preparations having thus been made\, the priests go continually into the outer tent\, performing their ritual duties; but into the second only the high priest goes\, and he but once a year\, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.\nGospel Reading: Luke 1:39-49\, 56\nIn those days\, Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country\, to a city of Judah\, and she entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary\, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry\, “Blessed are you among women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me\, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold\, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears\, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”\n  And Mary said\, “My soul magnifies the Lord\, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior\, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold\, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me\, and holy is his name.” And Mary remained with her about three months\, and returned to her home.
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SUMMARY:Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/29/2026\nSaints and Feasts: Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt; Mark\, Bishop of Arethusa; Martyr Cyril the Deacon and Those with him; The Holy Martyrs Jonas and Barachesius; Eustathios the Confessor\, Bishop of Bithynia\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31\nOn the evening of that day\, the first day of the week\, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews\, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them\, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this\, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again\, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me\, even so I send you.” And when He had said this\, He breathed on them and said to them\, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any\, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any\, they are retained.” Now Thomas\, one of the twelve\, called the Twin\, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him\, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them\, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails\, and place my finger in the mark of the nails\, and place my hand in His side\, I will not believe.” Eight days later\, His disciples were again in the house\, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut\, but Jesus came and stood among them and said\, “Peace be with you.” Then He said to Thomas\, “Put your finger here\, and see My hands; and put out your hand\, and place it in My side; do not be faithless\, but believing.” Thomas answered Him\, “My Lord and My God!” Jesus said to him\, “Have you believed because you have seen Me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.” Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples\, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ\, the Son of God\, and that believing\, you may have life in His name.\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 9:11-14\nBRETHREN\, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come\, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands\, that is\, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the Holy Place\, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood\, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh\, how much more shall the blood of Christ\, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God\, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.\nGospel Reading: Mark 10:32-45\nAt that time\, Jesus took his twelve disciples\, and he began to tell them what was to happen to him\, saying\, “Behold\, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes\, and they will condemn him to death\, and deliver him to the Gentiles; and they will mock him\, and spit upon him\, and scourge him\, and kill him; and after three days he will rise.” And James and John\, the sons of Zebedee\, came forward to him\, and said to him\, “Teacher\, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them\, “What do you want me to do for you?” And they said to him\, “Grant us to sit\, one at your right hand and one at your left\, in your glory.” But Jesus said to them\, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink\, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” And they said to him\, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them\, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized\, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant\, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.” And when the ten heard it\, they began to be indignant of James and John. And Jesus called them to him and said to them\, “You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them\, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant\, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve\, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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SUMMARY:John Climacus the Righteous\, author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent
DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/30/2026\nSaints and Feasts: John Climacus the Righteous\, author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent; Sosthenes\, Apollos\, Cephas\, Caesar\, & Epaphroditos\, the Apostles of the 70; Zacharias the New Martyr\nStrict Fast\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 48:17-49:4\nThus says the LORD\, your Redeemer\, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God\, who teaches you to profit\, who leads you in the way you should go.  O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river\, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; your offspring would have been like the sand\, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”\nGo forth from Babylon\, flee from Chaldea\, declare this with a shout of joy\, proclaim it\, send it forth to the end of the earth; say\, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”  They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.  “There is no peace\,” says the LORD\, “for the wicked.”\nListen to me\, O coastlands\, and hearken\, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb\, from the body of my mother he named my name.  He made my mouth like a sharp sword\, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow\, in his quiver he hid me away.  And he said to me\, “You are my servant\, Israel\, in whom I will be glorified.”  But I said\, “I have labored in vain\, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD\, and my recompense with my God.”\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 27:1-41\nWhen Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see\, he called Esau his older son\, and said to him\, “My son”; and he answered\, “Here I am.”  He said\, “Behold\, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.  Now then\, take your weapons\, your quiver and your bow\, and go out to the field\, and hunt game for me\, and prepare for me savory food\, such as I love\, and bring it to me that I may eat; that I may bless you before I die.”  Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it\, Rebekah said to her son Jacob\, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau\,  ‘Bring me game\, and prepare for me savory food\, that I may eat it\, and bless you before the LORD before I die.’  Now therefore\, my son\, obey my word as I command you.  Go to the flock\, and fetch me two good kids\, that I may prepare from them savory food for your father\, such as he loves; and you shall bring it to your father to eat\, so that he may bless you before he dies.”  But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother\, “Behold\, my brother Esau is a hairy man\, and I am a smooth man.  Perhaps my father will feel me\, and I shall seem to be mocking him\, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”  His mother said to him\, “Upon me be your curse\, my son; only obey my word\, and go\, fetch them to me.”  So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food\, such as his father loved.  Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son\, which were with her in the house\, and put them on Jacob her younger son; and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon the smooth part of his neck; and she gave the savory food and the bread\, which she had prepared\, into the hand of her son Jacob.\nSo he went in to his father\, and said\, “My father”; and he said\, “Here I am; who are you\, my son?”  Jacob said to his father\, “I am Esau your first-born. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game\, that you may bless me.”  But Isaac said to his son\, “How is it that you have found it so quickly\, my son?” He answered\, “Because the LORD your God granted me success.”  Then Isaac said to Jacob\, “Come near\, that I may feel you\, my son\, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”  So Jacob went near to Isaac his father\, who felt him and said\, “The voice is Jacob’s voice\, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”  And he did not recognize him\, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.  He said\, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered\, “I am.”  Then he said\, “Bring it to me\, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it to him\, and he ate; and he brought him wine\, and he drank.  Then his father Isaac said to him\, “Come near and kiss me\, my son.”  So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments\, and blessed him\, and said\, “See\, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed!  May God give you of the dew of heaven\, and of the fatness of the earth\, and plenty of grain and wine.  Let peoples serve you\, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers\, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you\, and blessed be every one who blesses you!”\nAs soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob\, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father\, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.  He also prepared savory food\, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father\, “Let my father arise\, and eat of his son’s game\, that you may bless me.”  His father Isaac said to him\, “Who are you?” He answered\, “I am your son\, your first-born\, Esau.”  Then Isaac trembled violently\, and said\, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me\, and I ate it all before you came\, and I have blessed him? – Yes\, and he shall be blessed.”  When Esau heard the words of his father\, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry\, and said to his father\, “Bless me\, even me also\, O my father!”  But he said\, “Your brother came with guile\, and he has taken away your blessing.”  Esau said\, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and behold\, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said\, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”  Isaac answered Esau\, “Behold\, I have made him your lord\, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants\, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you\, my son?”  Esau said to his father\, “Have you but one blessing\, my father? Bless me\, even me also\, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.  Then Isaac his father answered him: “Behold\, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be\, and away from the dew of heaven on high.  By your sword you shall live\, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose you shall break his yoke from your neck.”  Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him\, and Esau said to himself\, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 19:16-25\nHe who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the word will die.  He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD\, and he will repay him for his deed.  Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.  A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him\, you will only have to do it again.  Listen to advice and accept instruction\, that you may gain wisdom for the future.  Many are the plans in the mind of a man\, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established.  What is desired in a man is loyalty\, and a poor man is better than a liar.  The fear of the LORD leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.  The sluggard buries his hand in the dish\, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.  Strike a scoffer\, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding\, and he will gain knowledge.
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