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4th Week of Great Lent. Fourth Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead.
Tone 7.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplius), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303).
Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (279-275). Martyr Nicander of Egypt (ca. 302). St. Nicander, founder of Gorodnoezersk Monastery (Novgorod) (1603).
New Hieromartyrs Alexis Vinogradov, archpriest, of Novotroitskoye (Tver) (1938) and Michael Bogoslovsky, archpriest, of Simferopol (1940).
St. Zachariah, pope of Rome (752). Martyr Leocritia (Lucretia), at Cordoba (859). New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792). Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (1st c.).
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. 6:9–12; Mark 7:31–37]
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (I Cor. 15:50). Consequently, to receive the kingdom it is necessary to become fleshless and bloodless—that is, to become steadfast in such a nature of life wherein blood and flesh literally do not exist. This is attained by a complete renunciation of deeds that come from flesh and blood. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Having listed all of these, the Apostle adds: I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19–21). He that has ears to hear, let him hear (cf. Matt. 11:15)!
Articles
 Hieromartyr Alexander of Side, in PamphyliaMiraculously preserved by the Lord, the saint underwent all the tortures with surprising endurance, and finally, he was beheaded. |
 Martyr Nicander of EgyptThe Holy Martyr Nicander suffered in Egypt under the emperor Diocletian (284-305). |