Wednesday, April 1, 2009

From the Synaxarion

• Sfânta Cuvioasă Maria Egipteanca
• Sfântul Cuvios Varsanufie de la Optina
• Sfântul Cuvios Macarie Mărturisitorul
• Sfântul Mucenic Gherontie

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)

There are no name days in the calendar on this day.