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Passion Week.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Hieromartyr Artemon, priest, of Laodicea in Syria (303).
Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia (3rd c.). Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476). St. Anastasia, nun and foundress of the Protection Convent in Kiev (1900).
Martyr Eleutherius of Persia (4th c.). Martyr Zoilus of Rome (4th c.). St. Martyrius, patriarch of Jerusalem (486). St. Martius, abbot, of Clermont (Gaul) (ca. 530). St. Herman, archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1890). St. Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655).
Repose of Elder Cosmas of Pantocrator, Mt. Athos (1970).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Monday (Holy Week). [Matt. 24:3–35]
The Lord goes to a voluntary passion. We must accompany Him. This is the duty of anyone who confesses that by the power of Christ’s passion he has become who he is now, and of anyone who hopes to receive something which is so great and glorious, that it could not even enter one’s mind. How must one accompany Him? Through reflection and sympathy. Follow the suffering Lord in thought; and in your reflection extract such impressions as could strike your heart and bring it to feel the sufferings which were borne by the Lord. In order to better accomplish this, you must make yourself suffer through perceptible lessening of food and sleep, and an increase in the labour of standing and kneeling. Fulfil all that the Holy Church does, and you will be a good fellow-traveller of the Lord to His sufferings.
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 Womanmartyr Thomais of AlexandriaThe Holy martyr Thomais was born into a Christian family in the city of Alexandria. She was raised in piety, and loved to read spiritual books. |