Sunday, February 3, 2008

From the Synaxarion

• Sfântul și Dreptul Simeon, primitorul de Dumnezeu
• Sfânta Prorociță Ana
• Sfântul Ansgar, luminătorul Danemarcei și al Suediei
• Sfântul Ierarh Ignatie de Marioupolis
• Sfântul Ierarh Nicolae al Japoniei

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)

• Simion