Sunday, 5 March 2028
21 February 2028 on the Old calendar
- First Sunday of Lent: Triumph of Orthodoxy
Liturgical colour: purple
42 days until Pascha
Saints of the day
- Venerable Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia († 795)
- Holy Hierarch Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch († 337)
- Holy New Hieromartyrs Priests Alexander, Daniel, and Gregory († 1930)
- New Hieromartyrs Priest Constantine and Deacon Paul († 1938)
- New Martyr Olga († 1939)
- Holy Hierarch George, Bishop of Amastris on the Black Sea († 802-811)
- “Kozel’shchina” Icon of the Mother of God (1881)
Fasting
With oilPlant food cooked with oil, and wine; no fish.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.