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1st Week of Great Lent.
Tone 4.
Великий пост. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Appearance of the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Mt. Athos) (9th c.). 
St. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch (381). St. Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow (1378). St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840).
St. Mary, nun (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk, of Alexandria (6th c.) St. Anthony II, patriarch of Constantinople (895). St. Bassian, founder of Ryabovsk Monastery (Uglich) (1509).
Hieromartyr Urbanus, pope of Rome (223-230). St. Ethilwald of Lindisfarne (740). St. Prochorus of Georgia, builder of Holy Cross Monastery near Jerusalem (1066). New Monk-martyrs Luke (Mukhaidze) (1277) and Nicholas (Dvali) (1314), of Jerusalem, and the holy fathers of the Georgian monasteries in Jerusalem. New Martyr Christos the Gardener, of Albania, at Constantinople (1748).
Repose of the cave-dweller Anastasia (Logacheva) of Ardatov (1875).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Wednesday.
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God (Prov. 2:3–5). The root of a God-pleasing life is fear of the Lord. When it comes to you, then, as a creative force, it will restructure everything within you and recreate in you a beautiful order—a spiritual cosmos. How can you acquire the fear of God? It is in you, only it is smothered. Resurrect it. Give voice to your reason, and open your heart to accept the influence of truth. Until now, your reason was not given a voice—it was enslaved, and did not dare to speak sensibly. Let it now speak. It will begin to speak about God’s omnipotence, which upholds you and could abandon you at any instant; about God’s omnipresence and omniscience, which sees everything within you and is wrathful with you for all that is bad within you; about God’s justice, which is ready to punish you now, but is restrained until the time by His mercy; about death, which at every instant is ready to catch you and give you over to judgement and retribution. Listen and bring your heart to a feeling of these truths. Awaken this feeling—and together with it will come the fear of God. This is the dawn of life.