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April 9
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4th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 2.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica (3rd c.-4th c.).
Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius (304). St. John the Clairvoyant, anchorite, of Lycopolis, Egypt (394-395). St. Ephraim, archbishop of Rostov (1454). St. Anthony, metropolitan of Tobolsk (1740).
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mt. Athos “Glykophylousa” (“Sweet-kissing”) and “Of the Akathist.”
Prophet Hanani (Ananias). St. Cyricus, monk, of Thrace. St. Paphnutius (4th c.), disciple of St. Anthony the Great. St. Rupert, bishop of Salzburg (718). St. Paul, bishop of Corinth (ca. 925).
Repose of Elder Augustine of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (1965).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By 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
 Martyrs Manuel and TheodosiusThe Holy Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius suffered for their faith in Christ in 304 in Sirmium. |
