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Monday, March 10, 1997

Feast of the day

Beginning of Great Lent

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From the Synaxarion

Fasting today

Strict fast (dry eating)

Dry eating: bread, uncooked vegetables and fruit, water. No oil.

Great Lent · the beginning of Great Lent

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)

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