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1st Week of Great Lent.
Tone 4.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: total abstinence from food.
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Uncovering of the relics of the Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople (395-423).
Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, and Philip, with 70 soldiers, of Apamea (ca. 305). Sts. Thalassius and Limnaeus, hermits, near Cyrrhus (5th c.). St. Athanasius the Confessor, of Constantinople (826). St. Herman, founder of Stolobny Monastery (Novgorod) (1614).
New Hieromartyrs Sergius (Bukashkin), hieromonk, of Novo-Alexandrovka (Moscow), Antipa (Kyrillov), hieromonk, of Tatarintsevo (Moscow) (1938); and Philaret (Pryakhin), abbot, of Trubino (Tver) (1942).
St. Abilius, bishop of Alexandria (98). St. Telesphorus, pope of Rome (127). St. Papius of Hierapolis (2nd c.). St. Titus, bishop of Bostra in Arabia (378). St. Baradates, hermit, near Antioch (469). Holy Nine Children of Kola, Georgia: Guarami, Adarnasi, Bakari, Vache, Bardzini, Dachi, Djuansheri, Ramazi, and Parsmani (6th c.). St. Leontius of Lycia (6th c.). Sts. Babylus and his wife Comnita, of Nicosa (7th c.). St. Peter the Stylite, of Mt. Athos.
Repose of Righteous Gregory (“Golden Grits”) Miroshnikov of Sednev (1855), Schemanun Avramia of Kashin (1855), and Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Monday (1st Week of Lent).
“Lent has come, O mother of chastity.” What was the time before this day? A time of fornication.[1] The soul fornicated with all that struck its eye as pleasant—both with people and with things: more fully, with sinful passions. Everyone has his passion which he pleases in all he does. It is time to put an end to this. May each of you comprehend your Delilah, who binds you and hands you over to evil enemies, and abandon her. Then you will be given more than Samson: not only shall your hair grow, but so also shall good thoughts; and not only shall your strength return, but so also your strength of will. Your eyes shall also open, your mind shall have sight and it shall see the Lord, yourself, and everything around you in the proper light. This is the favourable time! This is the day of salvation!
[1] “A time of fornication.” Fornication here has a double meaning in Russian, both of fornication and roaming.
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