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Passion Week.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Martyrs Theodulus, reader, and Agathopodes, deacon, and those with them, at Thessalonica (ca. 303). Translation of the relics of St. Job, patriarch of Moscow (1652).
St. Publius of Egypt, monk (4th c.). Sts. Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Mark the Anchorite, of Athens (400). St. Plato the Confessor, abbot, of the Studion (814). St. Theodora, nun, of Thessalonica (892).
Hieromartyr Nicholas Simo, archpriest, of Kronstadt (1931).
Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria (304). Venerable Derfel Gadarn of Wales (6th c.). New Martyr George of New Ephesus (1801). New Martyr Panagiotes of Jerusalem (1820).
Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837) and Elder Philemon of Valaam and Jordanville (1953). Martyrdom of Optina monastics Hieromonk Basil and Riassaphore-monks Therapontus and Trophimus, on Pascha (1993).
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.
Articles
 Venerable Publius of EgyptSaint Publius lived a life of asceticism in the Egyptian desert during the reign of the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). |
 Venerable Mark the Anchorite of AthensSaint Mark was born in Athens. He related his life to Abba Serapion who, by the will of God, visited him before his death. |
 St. Plato the Confessor of StudionSaint Plato was born in the year 735 into a pious Christian family of the parents, Sergius and Euphemia. |
 Venerable Theodora of ThessalonicaShe entered a women’s monastery, where she struggled in asceticism and adorned her soul with virtues. |
