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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week).
Tone 4.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582).
Hieromartyr Archilias, priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of Rome (3rd c.). St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (308). 120 Martyrs of Persia (344-347). St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, archbishop of Moravia and enlightener of the Slavs (885).
New Hiero-confessor Sebastian (Fomin), archimandrite, of Optina and Karaganda (1966).
St. Gregory (Drimys) of the Great Lavra on Mt. Athos (1326), instructor of St. Gregory Palamas. St. Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346). New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon, of Mytilene (1463). New Hieromartyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1818). New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace, at Makri in Thrace (1835). St. Martyrius, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1865).
Repose of Hieromonk Arsenius of Valaam (1853), Elder Mardarius of the Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery (1859), and Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin) of Rakitin (1982).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Monday (6th week of Lent).
Thus says the Lord: I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. Under what condition should all this come to pass? Go ye forth out of Babylon (Isa. 48:17–20).
Babylon is an image of all-around sinfulness. Abandon sin, turn to the Lord with all of your heart. He will not remember your transgressions, and will consign all of your unrighteousness to oblivion. You will enter again into mercy with Him—and then you need only to walk the way which He will teach you, and your inner peace will be like a river, the good thoughts of your heart like the sand, and the fruits of your good works like the dust of the ground.[1]
[1] The Slavonic for Isa. 48:19–20 reads: …and the offspring of thy bowels like the dust of the ground. The wording, dust of the ground, in the Slavonic refers to Genesis 2:7.
Articles
 St. Eutychius the Patriarch of ConstantinopleSaint Eutychius, Archbishop of Constantinople, was born in a village called “Divine” in the province of Phrygia. |
 Hieromartyr Archilias, priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of RomeThe Holy Martyrs Jeremiah and the Priest Archilias (Alchimius) suffered martyrdom in the third century. |
 St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis, SyriaSaint Platonida was at first a deaconess, but afterwards withdrew into the Nisibis desert, where she organized a women’s monastery. |
 120 Martyrs of PersiaThe Holy 120 Martyrs suffered under the Persian emperor Sapor. |
