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Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent

February 6, 2026

We will chant the Seven Penitential Psalms & Litany on Tuesday, February 24th, at 6:30pm. Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent in the Western Orthodox calendar is February 25th this year; we will have Vespers at 6:30pm and Mass with the blessing and imposition of ashes at 7. Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers will be offered at Ss. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church in Potomac, MD on March 1st at 5pm.

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St. Gregory the Great Orthodox Church
A Western Rite Congregation of the Antiochian Archdiocese near Washington, DC
13407 Roxbury Rd · Silver Spring, MD · 301-288-4798
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