Saturday, September 17, 2011

From the Synaxarion

• Sfântul Ierarh Dionisie, Episcopul Cetății Albe-Ismail
• Sfânta Muceniță Sofia și fiicele sale: Pistis, Elpis și Agapis
• Sfântul Ierarh Iraclidie, Episcop de Tamasos
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoanei a Maicii Domnului „a Sfântului Macarie”

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)

• Sofia