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4th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 6.
Великий пост. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (638-644). 
St. Euthymius, archbishop of Novgorod (1458).
Hieromartyr Pionius, priest, of Smyrna, and those with him: Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus, and Sabina (250). St. Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). St. Sophronius, bishop of Vratsa (Bulgaria) (1813). Translation to Constantinople of the relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium. St. Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917).
New Hiero-confessors Patrick (Petrov), hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1933) and Michael (Galushko), schema-archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1961).
St. Oengus (Angus) the Culdee, bishop, of Clonenagh (Ireland) (824). Hieromartyr Eulogius, metropolitan of Cordoba (859). St. George the New, wonderworker of Constantinople (ca. 970). St. Theodora, queen of Arta, wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (ca. 1275). Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, priests, of Laodicea (300).
Slaying of Emperor Paul I of Russia (1801).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Friday.
The Lord had said unto Abraham: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee (Gen. 12:1). This is an explicit image for the change of heart which occurs in true believers, when they sincerely take upon themselves their cross, and follow Christ. They leave their father—selfishness, crucifying it through self-denial; they leave their kindred—their personal sinful leanings, passions and habits, crucifying them through the resolution to follow unswervingly and in all things the passion-slaying commandments of the Lord; they leave their country, the entire sinful realm, the world with all of its demands, crucifying it with the resolution to be alien to it—although for this it might be necessary to endure not only loss of property and social status, but even to endure death itself.
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