February
1 – Last day to use the greeting Christ is Born! Glorify Him! (Time to take down our Christmas Tree!)
2 – Presentation/Encounter in the Temple
(12) – Meatfare Sunday
14 – Repose of Venerable Cyril, Teacher of the Slavs
(19) – Cheesefare/Forgiveness Sunday
(20) – First Day of Great Lent (strict fast) (Check out our Great Lent Retreat from last year if you missed it!)
25 – First and Second Finding of John the Baptist’s Head
(26) – Sunday of Orthodoxy
28 – Venerable Basil the Confessor
The Byzantine Life
Thank you for checking out this week’s article. What are you doing to prepare for a Holy February? Our family has a bad cold right now, so we aren’t going to do much preparing for February yet. But once we are over this, we will start making our plans for Great Lent!
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