The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.
New Hiero-confessor Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925).
St. Nicander, hermit, of Pskov (1582).
Martyrs Pelagia, Theodosia, and Dula, of Nicomedia, who suffered under Valentinian (4th c.). St. Senuphius the Wonderworker, of Latomos Monastery in Thessalonica (9th c.). St. Sabbas the New, of Kalymnos (1948). St. Justin (Popovic), archimandrite, of Chelije in Serbia (1979).
The Fourth Sunday of Lent. [ Heb. 6:13–20; Mark
9:17–31]
In His talks about blessedness, the
Lord depicts a heavenly heart (Matt. 5:1–12). It
contains: humility; weeping and contrition; meekness and
angerlessness; complete love of righteousness; perfect
mercifulness; purity of heart; love of peace and
peacemaking; suffering misfortunes, false accusations and
persecution for the sake of the Christian faith and life.
If you want heaven, be like this, and already here on
earth you will have a foretaste of heaven, into which you
will enter prepared, like a forenamed heir.