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March 27
4th Week of Great Lent. Tone 7.
Great Lent.
Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. 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

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

St. Benedict of Nursia, Founder of Western Monasticism

St. Gregory the Dialogist

For three years the saint waged a harsh struggle with temptations and conquered them. People soon began to gather to him, thirsting to live under his guidance. The number of disciples grew so much, that the saint divided them into twelve communities. Each community was comprised of twelve monks and was a separate skete.

St. Euschemon the Confessor and Bishop of Lampsacus

Saint Euschemon the Confessor, Bishop of Lampsacus, lived in Asia Minor on the coastal region of the Dardanelles peninsula, and was known for his virtuous and ascetic life.

Right-believing Great Prince Rostislav-Michael the Prince of Kiev

Saint Rostislav had the pious custom of inviting the igumen and twelve monks to his own table on the Saturdays and Sundays of Great Lent, and he served them himself. The prince more than once expressed the wish to be tonsured a monk at the monastery of Saints Anthony and Theodosius, and he even gave orders to build a cell for him.

St. Theognostus the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia

Saint 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 Theodore

The Theodore—Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God was painted by the Evangelist Luke and resembles the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.
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