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Cheese-fare Week—no meat; fish and dairy allowed. Tone 3.
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомHieromartyr Blaise, bishop of Sebaste (ca. 316). Совершается служба на шестьSt. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), prince and wonderworker of Pskov (1138). Совершается служба со славословиемSt. Demetrius, founder of Priluki Monastery (Vologda) (1392). St. Cassian “the Barefoot,” of Volokolamsk (1532).

St. Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (ca. 867).

Hieromartyr Lucius of Adrianople (348). St. Caedmon, monk, of Whitby, hymnographer (ca. 680). St. Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork (Ireland) (7th c.). St. Benedict of Aniane, monastic reformer (821). New Martyr George of Kratovo, at Sofia (1515).

Repose of Archbishop Simon of Shanghai and Peking (1933).

Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse

St. Theophan the Recluse

Friday.

So will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing, promises the Lord through the prophet Zechariah (Zech. 8:7–23). But under what condition? Under the condition that every man will speak the truth to his neighbour, that men will righteously sort out their affairs amongst themselves, that men will not remember wrongs in their hearts against their neighbour, that they will love no false oath, and will love truth and peace. If these conditions are met, says the Lord, they shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness (Zech. 8:8), and His blessing shall spread among them. Then all strangers shall hear and say, “Let us go speedily to them to pray before the Lord, for we have heard that the Lord is with them (cf. Zech. 8:21–3). Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts (Zech. 8:22).

Thus did the high moral purity of the first Christians attract people and nations to the Lord. Those who live always according to the spirit of Christ are, without the use of words, the best preachers of Christ and the most convincing apostles of Christianity.

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