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3rd Week of Great Lent.
Tone 2.
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
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.