Sunday, May 5, 1974

From the Synaxarion

• Sfânta Cuvioasă Matrona de la Hurezi
• Sfântul Cuvios Mucenic Efrem cel Nou
• Sfânta Mare Muceniță Irina
• Sfântul Mucenic Gaian
• Sfântul Ierarh Eftimie, fratele Cuvioasei Parascheva de la Iași
• Sfântul Mucenic Gaie
• Sfântul Mucenic Neofit
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoanei a Maicii Domnului „Potirul Nesecat”

Fasting today

• No weddings
  No weddings

  The Mystery of Marriage is not celebrated on fasting days (Wednesdays, Fridays and the four fasts), from Meatfare Sunday to Thomas Sunday, between Christmas and Theophany, on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and on the eve and the day of the Great Feasts.

  Source: Calendar of the Romanian Patriarchate, “No weddings” (opens in a new tab)

• Irina