Saturday, April 30, 2005

From the Synaxarion

• Sfântul Apostol Iacob, fratele Sfântului Apostol Ioan Evanghelistul
• Sfântul Ierarh Ignatie Briancianinov
• Sfântul Ierarh Donat, Episcopul Evriei
• Sfânta Muceniță Arghira
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoanei a Maicii Domnului „a pătimirilor”

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)

• Iacob