St. Mark the Confessor, bishop of Arethusa, and with him Hieromartyr Cyril, deacon, of Heliopolis, and others, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (ca. 363).
St. John, hermit of Egypt (4th c.). St. Eustasius, abbot, of Luxeuil (9th c.). Sts. Mark (15th c.) and Jonah (1480) of the Pskov Caves Monastery.
New Martyrs Priest Paul Voinarsky, and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919).
St. Diadochus, bishop of Photike in Epirus (ca. 486). St. Eustathius the Confessor, bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th c.).
Repose of Elder Nicetas of the Roslavl Forests, near Bryansk (1793).
Monday (the 5th week of Lent).
The eyes of the Lord are in every
place, beholding the evil and the good (Prov. 15:3).
Oh, if only rational creatures would always keep this in
mind! Then not only would they not dare to commit excesses
openly and to give themselves over to dissoluteness of the
flesh, but also inwardly, in their thoughts, and in the
movements of their heart, they would not allow anything
unpleasing to God. They would stand then like soldiers at
the front before the king, with all attention and
strictness toward themselves, that they not be found
ignorant of their orders, and not be subject to the
king’s wrath and punishment. The orders given to
rational creatures are the commandments of God, which
determine the proper form of their thoughts, and how their
feelings and dispositions ought to be; they would then be
quite well-ordered.