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Fourth Sunday of Great Lent. Commemoration of St. John of the Ladder (Climacus).
Tone 4.
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 Wine and oil allowed.
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St. Hilarion the New, abbot of Pelecete (ca. 754). St. Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, abbot of Tryglia (9th c.).
Martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and those with them in Persia: Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas (Marotas), Narses, Elias, Marinus (Mares), Abibus, Sembeeth (Sivsithina), and Sabbas (ca. 330). Hieromartyrs George, bishop of Zagora, Parodus and Peter, priests, and Martyr Prince Enravota- Boyan, of Bulgaria (ca. 830). Monk-martyr Eustratius of the Kiev Caves (1097). St. Hilarion, founder of Pskovoezersk Monastery (Gdov) (1476). St. Jonah, founder of Klimets Monastery (Olonets) (1534).
St. Hesychius of Jerusalem, disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian (434). Sts. Priscus, Malchus, and Alexander, of Caesarea in Palestine (259). St. Dionysius the Merciful, bishop of Larissa (1510). St. John, bishop of Manglisi, Georgia (1751). New Hieromartyr Peter Ochryzko, priest, of Chartoviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944). Apostle Herodion of the Seventy (1st c.).
Repose of Abbot Adrian (in schema Alexis) of Konevits (1812) and Blessed Helen of Arzamas (1820), disciple of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam.
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
The Fourth Sunday of Lent. [ Heb. 6:13–20; Mark 9:17–31]
In His talks about blessedness, the Lord depicts a heavenly heart (Matt. 5:1–12). It contains: humility; weeping and contrition; meekness and angerlessness; complete love of righteousness; perfect mercifulness; purity of heart; love of peace and peacemaking; suffering misfortunes, false accusations and persecution for the sake of the Christian faith and life. If you want heaven, be like this, and already here on earth you will have a foretaste of heaven, into which you will enter prepared, like a forenamed heir.