New Calendar
Revised Julian, February 23Beginning of the Great Fast
- Fasting
- Lenten fast; no overrides
- Also today
- Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna; Saint Gorgonia (372); Our Venerable Father Alexander the Unsleeping (430); Damian the New Martyr of Mount Athos
- Readings
- 6th Hour: Isaiah 1.1-20
Vespers: Genesis 1.1-13
Vespers: Proverbs 1.1-20