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March 26
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5th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 8.
Великий пост. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Translation of the relics of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (846).
Martyrs Africanus, Publius, and Terence, at Carthage (3rd c.). Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (305-311). Martyr Christina of Persia (4th c.).
New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), bishop of Izhevsk (1933).
Hieromartyr Publius, bishop of Athens and disciple of St. Dionysius the Areopagite (2nd c.). St. Leander, bishop of Seville (596).
Repose of Elder Ephraim of Valaam (1946) and Bishop Tikhon (Tikhomirov) of Kyrillov (1955).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Thursday.
A haughty spirit goeth before a fall (Prov. 16:18).[1] Therefore, do not allow evil thoughts to come in, and there will be no falls. And yet what are people most careless about? About their thoughts. They allow them to seethe as much and however they like, not even thinking to subdue them, or to direct them to rational pursuits. Meanwhile, within this inner turmoil the enemy approaches, places evil in the heart, seduces it and inclines it toward evil. And the person unnoticeably prepares himself for evil. It remains for him to either carry out the evil fixed to his heart, or to struggle with it. But this is our sorrow: that almost nobody takes on the struggle; while all are led to the evil as if bound.
[1] The Slavonic for Prov. 16:18 reads: Evil thoughts go before a fall. Probably St. Theophan used the Slavonic version as he wrote, but the editor used the Russian version, and so the editor added the words, “evil thoughts” in parentheses in my version of the text).