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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week).
Tone 1.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Benedict of Nursia, abbot (543).
St. Euschemon, bishop of Lampsacus (9th c.). St. Rostislav-Michael, great prince of Kiev (1167). St. Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1353). St. Andrew, abbot, of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Rafailovo, Siberia (1820).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore (“Feodorovskaya”) (Kostroma) (1613).
Martyr Eustathius and his company, at Carrhae, Mesopotamia (741).
Repose of Blessed John, fool-for-Christ, of Yurievets (1893).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Tuesday.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard (Prov. 21:13). And we often marvel why God does not listen to our prayers? Here is the reason! Because there surely have been instances when we have stopped our ears from hearing the entreaties of the needy; so the Lord does not hear us either. It is no great woe if a prayer about something temporal is not heard; but how woeful if the Lord will not listen to us when we start to pray to Him about the forgiveness of our sins. He will not listen if the cry to Him of those whom we have scorned is stronger than our prayers. We must hurry to avert this extreme misfortune, according to the example of Zaccheus, whose wise decision caused the Lord to say, This day is salvation come to this house (Luke 19:9).
Articles
 St. Theognostus the Metropolitan of Kiev and All RussiaSaint Theognostus the Greek succeeded Saint Peter as Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, holding this office from 1327 until 1353. |
 Icon of the Mother of God of St TheodoreThe Theodore—Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God was painted by the Evangelist Luke and resembles the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. |