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Passion Week.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Virgin-martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia, in Illyria (304).
Martyrs Leonidas, Chariessa, Nika, Galina, Callista (Calisa), Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora, and Irene, of Corinth (250). St. John, fool-for-Christ, of Verkhoturye (1701). St. Theodora-Bassa, princess of Novgorod (1378).
Weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Ilyin Chernigov.” (1658)
Hieromartyrs Felix, bishop, and Januarius, priest, and Martyrs Fortunatus and Septimus, of Lycaonia (304). Virgin-martyr Engratia, at Saragossa (304). St. Fructuosus of Braga in Iberia (665). Martyr Lambert, at Saragossa (ca. 900). New Martyr Michael of Smyrna (1772). New Monk-martyr Christopher of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Adrianople (1818).
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.
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 Icon of the Mother of God Weeping “Ilyin Chernigov”The Ilyin-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God was painted in the year 1658 by the iconographer Gregory Dubensky, (Gennadius in monasticism). |