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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week).
Tone 1.
Великий пост. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Alexis the Man of God, in Rome (411). 
St. Macarius, founder of Kalyazin Monastery (Tver) (1483).
Martyr Marinus the Soldier, at Caesarea in Palestine (260).
Hieromartyr Gabriel the Lesser, of Gareji, Georgia (1802). St. Ambrose, deacon, of Alexandria (400). St. Patrick, bishop of Armagh and enlightener of Ireland (451). St. Gertrude, abbess, of Nivelles (659). St. Beccan of Rhum (677). St. Withburga, solitary at Holkham and East Dereham (ca. 743). Monk-martyr Paul of Crete (767). St. Gurias, archbishop of Tauria and Simferopol (1882). St. Theosterictus the Confessor, abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (826) (Gr. Cal).
Repose of Archbishop Tikhon (Troitsky) of San Francisco (1963).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Monday (6th week of Lent).
Thus says the Lord: I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. Under what condition should all this come to pass? Go ye forth out of Babylon (Isa. 48:17–20).
Babylon is an image of all-around sinfulness. Abandon sin, turn to the Lord with all of your heart. He will not remember your transgressions, and will consign all of your unrighteousness to oblivion. You will enter again into mercy with Him—and then you need only to walk the way which He will teach you, and your inner peace will be like a river, the good thoughts of your heart like the sand, and the fruits of your good works like the dust of the ground.[1]
[1] The Slavonic for Isa. 48:19–20 reads: …and the offspring of thy bowels like the dust of the ground. The wording, dust of the ground, in the Slavonic refers to Genesis 2:7.