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5th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 4.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete.
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.). St. Mark the Anchorite, of Athens (400). Sts. Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt (4th c.). 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
Thursday.
A haughty spirit goeth before a fall (Prov. 16:18).[1] Therefore, do not allow evil thoughts to come in, and there will be no falls. And yet what are people most careless about? About their thoughts. They allow them to seethe as much and however they like, not even thinking to subdue them, or to direct them to rational pursuits. Meanwhile, within this inner turmoil the enemy approaches, places evil in the heart, seduces it and inclines it toward evil. And the person unnoticeably prepares himself for evil. It remains for him to either carry out the evil fixed to his heart, or to struggle with it. But this is our sorrow: that almost nobody takes on the struggle; while all are led to the evil as if bound.
[1] The Slavonic for Prov. 16:18 reads: Evil thoughts go before a fall. Probably St. Theophan used the Slavonic version as he wrote, but the editor used the Russian version, and so the editor added the words, “evil thoughts” in parentheses in my version of the text).
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. |
