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ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY Orthodox Calendar 2016
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3rd Week of Great Lent. Third Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead. Tone 2.
Великий пост.
Wine and oil allowed.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомThe Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St. Sabbas: Sts. John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796).

Martyrs Photina (Svetlana), the Samaritan woman; her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca; her sons Victor (or Photinus) and Joses; and Sebastian the Duke, the officer Anatolius, and Theoclitus, the former sorcerer—all martyred under Nero (ca. 66). Seven Virginmartyrs of Amisus (Samsun): Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (310). St. Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (9th c.). Suffering of St. Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake (Novgorod) (1612).

Righteous Abel, first martyr in the history of mankind. St. Martin of Braga in Iberia (580). St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, bishop (687). Hieromartyr Tadros, bishop of Edessa, at Jerusalem (691). Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, at Jerusalem (691). St. Wulfram, missionary (Neth.) (703). Martyr Archil II, king of Georgia (744). New Martyr Myron of Mega Castro on Crete (1793). New Hieromartyr Nicholas Holz, priest, of Novosiolki (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944).

Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse

St. Theophan the Recluse

Saturday. [Heb. 10:32–38; Mark 2:14–17]

   I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Mark 2:17). Through the mouth of Wisdom the Lord called the foolish to Himself. He Himself wandered upon the earth, calling sinners. Neither the proud, “clever ones,” nor the self-willed and righteous have a place with Him. Let intellectual and moral weakness rejoice! Mental and active power, step aside! Total weakness that acknowledges itself as such and hastens with faith to the Lord Who healeth the weak and filleth the impoverished, will become strong both intellectually and morally, but will continue to acknowledge both its intellectual poverty and evil inclinations. The power of God, under this unprepossessing cover and made perfect in weakness, invisibly creates a different person who is bright mentally and morally. This brightness is often manifest here, but it is always manifest there, in heaven. Behold what is hidden from the wise and prudent and is revealed only to babes (cf. Matt. 11:25)!

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