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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week).
Tone 1.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. James the Confessor, bishop, of the Studion (8th c.-9th c.). St. Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949).
St. Cyril, bishop of Catania (1st c.-2nd c.). St. Thomas, patriarch of Constantinople (610). St. Pachomius, abbot, of Nerekhta (1384).
St. Beryllus, bishop of Catania (2nd c.). St. Serapion, bishop of Thmuis, Egypt (ca. 358). St. Lupicinus, desert-dweller, of the Jura Mountains (Gaul) (480). St. Enda, monk, of Aran (Ireland) (530). St. Sophronius, abbot, of the monastery of St. Theodosius in Palestine (542). New Martyr Michael of Agrapha, at Thessalonica (1544). Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Rome. St. Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th c.).
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. James the Confessor the Bishop of CataniaSaint James, Bishop and Confessor,was inclined toward the ascetic life from his early years. |
 St. Cyril the Bishop of CataniaSaint Cyril was born in Antioch. He was a disciple of the Apostle Peter (June 29, January 16), who installed him as Bishop of Catania in Sicily. |
