Great Lent 2026
Monday 23 February 2026 – Friday 3 April 2026
The Great Fast: forty days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving leading towards Holy Week and Pascha, beginning on Clean Monday.
Key days
- Tue 24 Feb 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist
- Fri 27 Feb St Raphael Bishop of Brooklyn
- Sun 1 Mar First Sunday of Lent
- Sun 8 Mar Second Sunday of Lent
- Mon 9 Mar Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
- Sun 15 Mar Third Sunday of Lent
- Sun 22 Mar Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Wed 25 Mar Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
- Sun 29 Mar Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Tue 31 Mar Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas