February 8, 2023. + Orthodox Calendar

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Cheese-fare Week—no meat; fish and dairy allowed. Tone 3.

Cheese-fare Week—no meat.

Apodosis of the Meeting of Our Lord. Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates (“the General”) of Heraclea (319). Prophet Zachariah (ca. 520 b.c.).

St. Sava II, archbishop of Serbia (1269). St. Lyubov of Ryazan, fool-for-Christ (1921).

New Hieromartyrs Andrew Dobrynin, archpriest, of Prechistoye-Naumovo (Yaroslavl) and Peter Markov, archpriest, of Korenevo (Moscow) (1938).

Martyr Conitus of Alexandria (249). St. Agathangelus, bishop of Damascus (ca. 325). St. Macarius, bishop of Paphos on Cyprus. Virginmartyrs Martha and Mary, at Tanis [Hermopolis] in Egypt.

Repose of Schema-abbot Theodore of Valaam (1937).

Articles

Greatmartyr Theodore Stratelates “the General”

The Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates came from the city of Euchaita in Asia Minor. He was endowed with many talents, and was handsome in appearance. For his charity God enlightened him with the knowledge of Christian truth.

Prophet Zachariah

The Prophet Zachariah the Sickle-Seer the eleventh of the twelve Minor Prophets. He was called to prophetic service at a young age and became, in the wondrous expression of church hymnology, “a spectator of supra-worldly visions.”

Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth, the Parents of St. John the Forerunner

Soon after the appearance of the archangel, Elizabeth conceived. At the birth of John the Baptist a miracle happened: Zachariah who had been stricken dumb after he questioned the archangel about this miraculous conceiving regained the gift of speech.

St. Sava II the Archbishop of Serbia

He guided the Church with great love and dedication until his repose, variously dated as 1268, 1269 and 1271. His holy relics are at Pec, the site of the ancient Serbian Patriarchate.

Blessed Liubov (Sukhanovskaya) of Ryazan, Fool for Christ

Everyone waited for her impatiently, for honorable people understood that the Lord Himself spoke through Liubushka, and had granted her both clairvoyance and the gift of love.