Orthodox Readings

February 2024

  1. 1 ThursdayThursday. Martyr Tryphon; Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, and those with them at Carthage (203); Our Holy Mother Brigid of Kildare (524)
  2. 2 FridayFast day: fish, wine and oil allowedFriday. Meeting of Christ in the Temple
  3. 3 SaturdaySaturday. Righteous Simeon the Godbearer and Anna the Prophetess; Our Father among the Saints, Nikolai (Nicholas), Archbishop and Enlightener of Japan (1912); Stamatios, John, & Nicholas, New Martyrs of Spetses
  4. 4 SundaySunday. 15th Sunday of Matthew
  5. 5 MondayMonday. Holy Martyr Agatha of Palermo in Sicily (251); Our Holy Father Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople (970); Holy New Martyr Antony of Athens (1774)
  6. 6 TuesdayTuesday. St Photios, patriarch of Constantinople (891); Sts Barsanuphius and John the Prophet, monks of Palestine (6th c.); St Bucolus, Bishop of Smyrna
  7. 7 WednesdayFast day: strictWednesday. St Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsacus; Our Venerable Father Luke the New of Mount Stirion (ca. 950); George the New Martyr of Crete
  8. 8 ThursdayThursday. Greatmartyr Theodore Stratelates; Holy Prophet Zechariah (6th c. BC); St Sabbas II, Archbishop of Serbia (1271)
  9. 9 FridayFast day: strictFriday. Leavetaking of Meeting
  10. 10 SaturdaySaturday. Hieromartyr Haralambos; St Scholastica of Italy, sister of St Benedict (543); Our Venerable Father Prochorus of the Kiev Caves (1107)
  11. 11 SundaySunday. 16th Sunday of Matthew
  12. 12 MondayMonday. St Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch; St Aleksy, Metr. of All Russia; Antonius, Archbishop of Constantinople
  13. 13 TuesdayTuesday. Ven. Martinian of Caesarea; Holy Apostles and Martyrs Priscilla and Aquila; St Symeon the Myrrh-streamer, founder of the Chilandar Monastery (1200)
  14. 14 WednesdayFast day: strictWednesday. St Cyril, Teacher of the Slavs; Our Holy Father Auxentius (470); What Happened to Valentine's Day?
  15. 15 ThursdayThursday. Apostle Onesimus of the Seventy; Our Venerable Father Dalmatius of Siberia (1697); Our Venerable Father Anthimos of Chios (1960)
  16. 16 FridayFast day: strictFriday. Martyr Pamphylius and His Companions; Romanos the Younger
  17. 17 SaturdaySaturday. Greatmartyr Theodore Tyro; Hieromartyr Germogen, Patriarch of Moscow; Mariamne, Sister of Apostle Philip, and Equal to the Apostles
  18. 18 SundaySunday. Sunday of the Canaanite Woman
  19. 19 MondayMonday. Apostles of the Seventy Archippus and Philemon; Our Venerable Mother Philothea of Athens (1589); Niketas the Younger
  20. 20 TuesdayTuesday. St Leo, Bishop of Catania; St Bessarion the Great, wonder-worker of Egypt (466); Thirty-four Holy Martyrs of the Monastery of Valaam (1578)
  21. 21 WednesdayFast day: strictWednesday. St Eustathius, archbishop of Antioch (337); St John the Scholastic, patriarch of Constantinople (577); Saint Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem (632)
  22. 22 ThursdayThursday. Unc. Rel. Holy Martyrs at Gate of Eugenius; Ven. Thalassius and Baradates, Hermits of Syria; Anthousa the Martyr & her 12 Servants
  23. 23 FridayFast day: strictFriday. Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna; Saint Gorgonia (372); Our Venerable Father Alexander the Unsleeping (430)
  24. 24 SaturdaySaturday. 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist
  25. 25 SundaySunday. Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee Beginning of the Lenten Triodion
  26. 26 MondayMonday. St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza; St Photini the Samaritan Woman, and those with her (66); Holy Martyr Theocletus
  27. 27 TuesdayTuesday. Our Holy Father Procopius of Decapolis (9th c.); Ephraim of Katounakia; Stephen the Monk
  28. 28 WednesdayWednesday. Kyranna the New Martyr of Thessaloniki; Blessed Nicholas of Pskov, fool for Christ (1576); Ven. Basil the Confessor
  29. 29 ThursdayThursday. Ven. John Cassian

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