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Orthodox Liturgy - February 2010
6, Feb 2010 - 09:55

Monthly Orthodox Liturgy Sunday 7th February 3:30pm Church Of Holy Rosary Castlebar all are most welcome more details on  0971367720

Sunday of Meatfare, Sunday of Last Judgement.

Commemorations of day. New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, afterfeast of Meeting. The 1003 Martyrs of Nicomedia (303) St Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsacus on the Hellespont (4th) St Richard of the West Saxons (720) St Luke of Hellas (953) Hieromartyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev (1918)

Monday 8th February Meat Fast  Afterfeast of the Meeting, Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates (the general) (319) Prophet Zechariah (c20Bc) St Sava 11, Archbishop of Serbia (1271

Tuesday 9th February Meat Fast Leavetaking of the Meeting  Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Philagrius, Bishop of Crypus, and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina (1st) Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch in Syria, (c257) St Teilo, Bishop (Liandaff and Liandeilo Faw 6th St Peter of Damascus (12th) New Martyrs Fr Dimitri Klepinin (France 1944) and his companions Elias Fondaminsky (1942) and George Skobtsov(1944)

Wednesday Meat Fast10th February Hieromartyr Haralambos, Bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly (202) St Scholastica, sister of St Benedict (543) St Anna, Princess of Novgorod (1056)

Thursday 11th February Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste (c316) St Caedmon of Whitby, monk (c680) Empress Theodora, Restorer of the Icons (c867) St Demetrius, wonderworker of Priluk ( Vologda 1392)

Friday 12th February  Meat Fast St Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch (381) St Mary (who was called Marinus) and her father, St Eugene, at Alexandria (6th) St Ethelwold of Lindisfarne (740) St Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and wonder worker of all Russia (1378) New Martyr Kristo the Gardner (Albania 1748) St Meletius, Archbishop of KharKov (1840) Iveron (Iberian) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos

Saturday 13th Meat Fast Feburary  Saturday of Cheesefare Commeration of All Monks and Nuns. The Apostles Aquila and Priscilla (1st)  St Martinian of Caesarea in Palestine (5th) St Stephen (in monasticism Symeon)

Sunday 14th February Sunday of Chessefare. The Expulsion of Adam from Paradise, forgiveness Sunday.  St Maron, Hermit of Syria (5th) Repose of St Cyril, Equal -to-the-Apostles and teacher of the Slaves (869) St Isaac the reculse, of the Kiev Caves (1090)

Monday 15th Fast Day  February First Week of Great Lent
Apostle Onesimus, of the seventy (c109) St Anthimus of Chios)(1960)

Tuesday 16th February Fast Day  Martyr Pamphilus at Caesarea in Palestine (307-309) St Flavin the Confessor, Patriarch of Constaninople (449)

Wednesday 17th Fast Time  Great Martyr Theodore the recruit ( c306)  St Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st) Hieromartyr Hermogen, Patriarch of Moscow and wonder worker of all Russia (1612)

Thursday 18th February Fast Day   St Leo the Great Pope of Rome, (461) St Agapetus the confessor, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia (4th) St Colman , Bishop of Lindisfarne (676)

Friday 18th February Fast Day  Apostles Archippus, and Philemon, of the seventy, and Martyr Apphias ( 1st) New Martyr Philothei of Athens (1589) St Theodore ( Ushakov) of Sanaskar (1791)

Saturday 20th First Saturday of Great Lent. Commeration of St Theodore the recruit. St Leo, Bishop of Catania (Sicilyc780). St Dionysius, Pope of Rome (268) Hieromartyr Sadoc (sadoth), Bishop of Persia (342-344)

Sunday 21st Feburary Fast Day  (wine, oil) Sunday of Orthodoxy.

Monday 22st February Fast Day Uncovering of relics of the Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople (826)

Tuesday 23rd Fast Day Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, (167) St Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the "unsleeping ones" (c430)
St Milburga, Abbess of Wenlock (715) St John the Harvester (theristis) of Mt Consolino (Calabria 11th)

Wednesday24th February Fast Day  Finding of the Honourable Head of Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John.  St Cumein, Abbott of Iona (c669)

Thursday 25th February Fast Day St Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (806). St Ethlelbert, King of Kent (616)  St Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779)

Friday 26th February Fast Day  Martyr Phontini (Svetlana), the Samaritan woman (1st) St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza (420)

Saturday 27th February Fast Day Second Saturday of Great Lent. Memorial Saturday   St Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis (8th) St Thallelaeus, Hermit, of Syria (460)  Raphael (Hawaweeny) Bishop of Brooklyn (1915)

Sunday 28th February Fast Day ( wine oil) 2nd Sunday of Great Lent.
St Gregory Palamas St Basil the Confessor, companion of St Procopius at Decapolis (750)  Sints Marana and Cyra (Syria 4th-5th)  St Nickolas Salos of Pskov, fool for Christt (1576) St John Cassian the Roman (435) St Oswald, Archbishop of York (992)