March 24

March 24 SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 2. Forefeast of the Annunciation. St. Gregory Palamas. Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves Lavra. Ven. Zachariah the Recluse. St. Artemius (Artemon), Bishop of Seleucia (1st-2nd c.). Ven. Zachariah, Ascetic, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th-14th c.). Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan’ (1552). St. James (Jacob, Iago) the Confessor, Bishop of Catania (8th-9th c.). ST GREGORY PALAMAS’S TEACHING This Sunday was originally