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Святитель Мелетий Антиохийский Иверская икона Божией Матери Святитель Алексий, Митрополит Московский и всея Руси, чудотворец
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February 25
1st Week of Great Lent. Tone 4.
Great Lent.
Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).

Совершается служба с полиелеемAppearance of the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Mt. Athos) (9th c.). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch (381). Совершается служба с полиелеемSt. Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow (1378). St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840).

St. Mary, nun (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk, of Alexandria (6th c.) St. Anthony II, patriarch of Constantinople (895). St. Meletius of Lardos, founder of Ypseni Monastery (late 19th c.). St. Bassian, founder of Ryabovsk Monastery (Uglich) (1509). Hieromartyr Urbanus, pope of Rome (223-230).

New Hiero-confessor Basil (Bogdashevsky), archbishop of Kanev (1933).

St. Ethilwald of Lindisfarne (740). St. Prochorus of Georgia, builder of Holy Cross Monastery near Jerusalem (1066). New Monk-martyrs Luke (Mukhaidze) (1277) and Nicholas (Dvali) (1314), of Jerusalem, and the holy fathers of the Georgian monasteries in Jerusalem. New Martyr Christos the Gardener, of Albania, at Constantinople (1748).

Repose of the cave-dweller Anastasia (Logacheva) of Ardatov (1875).

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

Wednesday.

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God (Prov. 2:3–5). The root of a God-pleasing life is fear of the Lord. When it comes to you, then, as a creative force, it will restructure everything within you and recreate in you a beautiful order—a spiritual cosmos. How can you acquire the fear of God? It is in you, only it is smothered. Resurrect it. Give voice to your reason, and open your heart to accept the influence of truth. Until now, your reason was not given a voice—it was enslaved, and did not dare to speak sensibly. Let it now speak. It will begin to speak about God’s omnipotence, which upholds you and could abandon you at any instant; about God’s omnipresence and omniscience, which sees everything within you and is wrathful with you for all that is bad within you; about God’s justice, which is ready to punish you now, but is restrained until the time by His mercy; about death, which at every instant is ready to catch you and give you over to judgement and retribution. Listen and bring your heart to a feeling of these truths. Awaken this feeling—and together with it will come the fear of God. This is the dawn of life.

Articles

The Iveron Mother of God, and the Myrrh-Streaming Icons of Hawaii

In June of 2008, the “Hawaiian” Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon was officially recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia as miraculous and worthy of veneration, and was given the blessing to travel to the various churches and monasteries of Holy Orthodoxy. The original “owner” of the Icon, Reader Nectarios, was charged by the Russian Orthodox Church to be Her guardian, and provide for the safety and care of this Wonderworking Icon of Christ’s Holy Church.

The Feast of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, and the Veneration of Holy Icons

Hieromonk Irenei (Pikovsky)

The miraculous appearance of the icon of the Mother of God in the ninth century, during the era of iconoclastic dispute, was literally a confirmation “from above” of what had been pronounced at the Seventh Ecumenical Council on the veneration of icons.

Icon of the Mother of God “Iveron”

The widow spent the whole night in vigil, praying before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. In the morning, according to God’s will, she took the icon to the sea and cast it upon the water. The holy icon stood upright on the waves and began to sail westward.

Iveron Icon of the Mother of God

St. Meletius the Archbishop of Antioch

Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch, was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (ca. 357), and afterwards he was summoned to Antioch by the emperor Constantius to help combat the Arian heresy, and was appointed to that See.

St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia

The Lord revealed to the future saint his lofty destiny from early childhood. At twelve years of age Eleutherius went to a field and set nets to ensnare birds. He dozed off and suddenly he heard a voice: “Alexis! Why do you toil in vain? You are to be a catcher of people.”

Venerable Mary (who was called Marinus), and her father at Alexandria

Saint Mary and her father Eugene lived at the beginning of the sixth century in Bithynia (northwestern Asia Minor).

St. Anthony the Patriarch of Constantinople

Saint Anthony, Patriarch of Constantinople, was a native of Asia, but lived in Constantinople from his youth.

St. Bassian of Uglich

Saint Bassian came to the Protection monastery when he was thirty-three years of age, and was soon tonsured by Saint Paisius.

St. Kristo the Gardener of Albania

The holy New Martyr Kristo was an Albanian who worked in a vegetable garden. At the age of forty, he decided to go to Constantinople to seek better business opportunities.
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