Sunday, 12 March 2028
28 February 2028 on the Old calendar
- Second Sunday of Lent
- Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica († c. 1360)
Liturgical colour: purple
35 days until Pascha
Saints of the day
- Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane († 818)
- St Alexander the new hiero-confessor († 1933)
- New Hieromartyrs Priests John, Constantine, Venerable Martyr Vladimir († 1938)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Sergius († 1943)
- Righteous Phineas the grandson of Aaron (C 1500 BC)
- Holy Hierarch Gregory Dialogus, the Pope of Rome († 604)
- Venerable Simeon the New Theologian († 1021)
- Icon “Not Made by Hands” of the Mother of God from Lydda (1st C) and “of Rome”
- Venerable Abacyrus and Cyrus
Fasting
With oilPlant food cooked with oil, and wine; no fish.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.