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4th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 7.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana (ca. 308).
St. Piama, virgin (337).
Volokolamsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1572).
Martyr Hemetherius of Spain (ca. 298). St. Alexandra of Alexandria (4th c.). St. Winwaloe, abbot of Landevennec, Brittany (ca. 530). St. Caluppan of Auvergne (Gaul) (576). St. Non, mother of St. David of Wales (6th c.). St. John IV (Chrysostom), catholicos of Georgia (1001). Hieromartyr Theodoretus, priest, of Antioch (361-363).
Repose of Metropolitan Laurus (Shkurla) (2008).
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.
Articles
 Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of ComanaThe Holy Martyrs Cleonicus, Eutropius and Basiliscus suffered in the city of Pontine Amasea (Asia Minor) in about the year 308. |
 Virginmartyr PiamaThe Virgin Piama lived in asceticism not far from Alexandria. |
 Icon of the Mother of God of VolokolamskThe Volokolamsk Icon of the Mother of God is a copy of the Vladimir Icon of the Moscow Dormition cathedral. |
