Sunday, 29 March 2026
16 March 2026 on the Old calendar
- Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Venerable Mary of Egypt
Liturgical colour: purple
14 days until Pascha
Saints of the day
- Hieromartyr Mark the Bishop of Arethusa, Martyr Cyril the Deacon of Heliopolis, and others who suffered under Julian the Apostate († c. 363)
- St. Michael the new hiero-confessor († 1933)
- Venerable John the Anchorite of Egypt (4th C)
- St. Eustathius (Eustace) the Confessor the Bishop of Bithynia (9th C)
- Venerable Mark and Jonah of the Pskov Caves († 15th C)
- New Hieromartyr Paul Voinarsky and with him Paul and Alexis († 1919)
Fasting
With oilPlant food cooked with oil, and wine; no fish.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.