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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week). Lazarus Saturday.
Tone 1.
Great Lent. Caviar, wine and oil allowed. |
 Caviar, wine and oil allowed.
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Lazarus Saturday 
St. Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem (386).
Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpus of Nicomedia (ca. 300). St. Aninas the Wonderworker, hieromonk, of the Euphrates.
St. Tetricus, bishop of Langres in Gaul (572). St. Daniel, monk, of Egypt (6th c.). St. Edward, martyr and king of England (978). St. Cyril of Astrakhan (1576). St. Maria (Skobtsova), nun, who suffered at Ravensbruck (1945).
Repose of Abbot Mark of Optina Monastery (1909).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Saturday. [Heb. 12:28–13:8; John 11:1–45]
To whomever has work-loving Martha, who symbolizes comprehensive good works, and who has Mary sitting at Jesus’ feet, symbolizing an attentive and warm appeal to the Lord with all the heart, the Lord Himself will come and will resurrect Lazarus, who symbolizes his spirit, and will release him from all his emotional and fleshly bonds. Then a truly new life will begin in him, bodiless in the body and unearthly on the earth. It will be a true resurrection in the spirit before the future resurrection, which will be together with the body!
Articles
 Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpus of NicomediaThe Holy Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpion were soldiers at Nicomedia during the persecution against Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305). |
