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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week). Lazarus Saturday. Tone 1.
Great Lent. Caviar, wine and oil allowed.
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Совершается служба со славословиемLazarus Saturday Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Mark the Confessor, bishop of Arethusa, and with him Hieromartyr Cyril, deacon, of Heliopolis, and others, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (ca. 363).

St. John, hermit of Egypt (4th c.). St. Eustasius, abbot, of Luxeuil (9th c.). Sts. Mark (15th c.) and Jonah (1480) of the Pskov Caves Monastery. St. Nicetas, desert-dweller of the Roslavl Forests, near Bryansk (1793).

New Hieromartyr Michael Viktorov, archpriest, of Boloshnevo (Ryazan) (1933). New Martyrs Priest Paul Voinarsky, and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919).

St. Diadochus, bishop of Photike in Epirus (ca. 486). St. Hesychius of Sinai (ca. 8th c.). St. Eustathius the Confessor, bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th c.).

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

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

The Raising of Lazarus (Lazarus Saturday)

Lazarus Saturday is a unique day: on a Saturday a Matins and Divine Liturgy bearing the basic marks of festal, resurrectional services, normally proper to Sundays, are celebrated.

Hieromartyr Mark the Bishop of Arethusa, who suffered under Julian the Apostate

Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, suffered for his faith in Christ under the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363).

Martyr Cyril the Deacon of Heliopolis, who suffered under Julian the Apostate

Saint Cyril destroyed many idols and pagan temples in Heliopolis, Phoenicia.

Venerable John the Anchorite of Egypt

During a persecution against Christians, the devout widow Juliania of Armenia hid from pursuers together with her two young children John and Themistea. She taught her children to pray and to read the Holy Scriptures.

St. Eustathius (Eustace) the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia

Saint Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia, was already at the beginning of his spiritual struggle a pious monk, meek and wise, filled with great faith and love for his neighbor.

St. Mark of the Pskov Caves

People inhabited the Pskov caves long before the times of Venerable Mark, who was one of the first monks living in the valley of the Kamenets river. The site currently occupied by the Pskov Caves Monastery was formerly a thick forest.

Venerable Mark of the Pskov Caves

Of the first Elders of the Pskov Caves monastery only Mark is known by name.

Venerable Jonah (John) of the Pskov Caves

The priest John (nicknamed “Shestnik”) came to this holy spot, where the first ascetics prayed.
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