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St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Today: 9:00 a.m. Matins. 10:00 Liturgy. We pray for the health of the Kimakovsky family (Sorokousty – 18) and we commemorate the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and all who have perished in eastern Ukraine. Panakhyda for Mariya Shcherbyna of blessed memory (grandmother of Sergei Kotkov), 40th day. Followed by a pre-Lenten Meal “Zapousty” and Annual General Meeting of the Parish.

February 26, Wednesday: 9:30 a. m. Akathist to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

March 1, Cheesefare (Forgiveness) Sunday. Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise: 8:30 a.m. Matins; 9:30 a.m. Liturgy with Forgiveness Vespers. We pray for the health of the Kimakovsky family (Sorokousty – 19). 12:00 noon Baptism of Arsen, son of Paul and Viktoriya (née Prokohorenko) Grosko.

March 2, Pure Monday: 5:00 p.m. Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete at St. Sophie Cathedral.

March 3, Tuesday: 5:00 p.m. Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete.

March 4, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts and Akathist to our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ. 5:00 p.m. Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete.

March 5, Thursday: 5:00 p.m. Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete.

March 7, Saturday, St. Theodore the Tyro: 5:00 p.m. Vespers.

March 8, First Sunday of Lent, The Triumph of Orthodoxy: 9:00 a.m. Matins; 10:00 Liturgy. We pray for the health of the Kimakovsky family (Sorokousty – 20). 7:00 p.m. Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers at St. Sophie Cathedral.

Meat-fare Sunday, Commemoration of the Awesome Judgement. Tone 3. Hieromartyr Charalampos, Bishop of Magnesia and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus, (202). St. Anna, wife of Yaroslav I (1050). Ven. Prochorus of the Near Kyivan Caves (1107). Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina and Paula of Palestine (308). {St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict (543)}.

Matins: G3, Mark 16:9-20. Liturgy: 1 Cor. 8:8-9:2; Mt. 25:31-46.