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4th Week of Great Lent. Fourth Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead.
Tone 2.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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St. Hilarion the New, abbot of Pelecete (ca. 754). St. Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, abbot of Tryglia (9th c.).
Martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and those with them in Persia: Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas (Marotas), Narses, Elias, Marinus (Mares), Abibus, Sembeeth (Sivsithina), and Sabbas (ca. 330). Hieromartyrs George, bishop of Zagora, Parodus and Peter, priests, and Martyr Prince Enravota-Boyan, of Bulgaria (ca. 830). Monk-martyr Eustratius of the Kiev Caves (1097). St. Hilarion, founder of Pskovoezersk Monastery (Gdov) (1476). St. Jonah, founder of Klimets Monastery (Olonets) (1534).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Postnikov, archpriest, of Timoshkino (Ryazan) (1931). New Hieromartyr Basil Malinin, archpriest, of Pereslavl (1938). New Hieromartyr Peter Ochryzko, priest, of Chartoviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944).
Sts. Priscus, Malchus, and Alexander, of Caesarea in Palestine (259). St. Hesychius of Jerusalem, disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian (434). St. Dionysius the Merciful, bishop of Larissa (1510). St. John, bishop of Manglisi, Georgia (1751). Apostle Herodion of the Seventy (1st c.).
Repose of Abbot Adrian (in schema Alexis) of Konevits (1812) and Blessed Helen of Arzamas (1820), disciple of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam.
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
 Venerable Hilarion the New the Abbot of PeleceteSaint Hilarion the New, Igumen of Peleke Monastery, from his youth, he devoted himself to the service of God and spent many years as a hermit. |
 Venerable Stephen the Wonderworker the Abbot of TrigliaSaint Stephen the Confessor, Igumen of Triglia Monastery, suffered under the iconoclast emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820). |
 Martyr Enravota - Boyan, the Prince of BulgariaThe Holy Martyr Boyan, Prince of Bulgaria, suffered for Christ around the year 830. |
