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3rd Week of Great Lent.
Tone 6.
Великий пост. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza (420).
Sts. Photina, the Samaritan woman, and her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca; her sons Victor [or Photinus] and Joses; Sebastian the Duke, the officer Anatolius, and Theoclitus, the former sorcerer—all martyred under Nero (ca. 66) (Gr. Cal) St. Sebastian, founder of Sokhotsk Monastery (Yaroslavl) (ca. 1500).
New Hieromartyr John (Pashin), bishop of Rylsk (1938).
Mezhetsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
New Martyr John the Cabinetmaker, at Constantinople (1575).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Wednesday.
It is remarkable that Wisdom calls the foolish to herself: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither (Prov. 9:4).[1] Thus, the clever cannot enter into the house of Wisdom, or the holy Church. Any cleverness must be laid aside at the very entrance to this house. On the other hand, if all wisdom and knowledge are only located inside the house of Wisdom, then outside of this house, outside of the holy Church there is only foolishness, ignorance and blindness. How marvellous is God’s institution! Leave your intellect behind upon entering the Church, and you will become truly intelligent; leave your independent activity and you will become truly active; deny all of yourself and you will become a true ruler over yourself. Oh, when will the world comprehend this wisdom! But this wisdom is hidden from the world. The world rebels against the wisdom of God because it does not understand that it, and keeps those foolish “clever ones” in its blindness
[1]The Slavonic for Prov. 9:4 reads Whoso is foolish, let him turn in hither.