Sunday, 1 March 2026
16 February 2026 on the Old calendar
- First Sunday of Lent: Triumph of Orthodoxy
Liturgical colour: purple
42 days until Pascha
Saints of the day
- Martyrs Pamphilus the Presbyter, Valens the Deacon, Paul, Porphyrius, Seleucus, Theodoulus, Julian, Samuel, Elias, Daniel, Jeremiah and Isaiah at Cæsarea in Palestine († c307-309)
- Holy Hierarch Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna († 1926)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Paul (1938)
- Persian martyrs whose relics were translated to Martyropolis by St. Maruthas (4th C)
- Venerable Maruthas, Bishop of Martyropolis in Mesopotamia († 422)
Fasting
With oilPlant food cooked with oil, and wine; no fish.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.