## [3rd Sunday of Great Lent: Veneration of the Cross - 15 March](https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/03/15/14-3rd-sunday…) ![3rd Sunday of Great Lent: Veneration of the Cross]() 🎶troparion🎶 O Lord, save Your people, and bless Your inheritance. Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians, over their adversaries. And by virtue of Your Cross preserve Your habitation! 🎶kontakion🎶 Now the flaming sword no longer guards the gates of Eden; it has mysteriously been quenched by the wood of the Cross! The sting of death and the victory of hell have been vanquished; for You, O my Savior, have come and cried to those in hell: “Enter again into paradise.” #Christian #OrthodoxChristian #Orthodox #Orthostr #Saint