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5th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 8.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (638-644). 
St. Euthymius, archbishop of Novgorod (1458).
Hieromartyr Pionius, priest, of Smyrna, and those with him: Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus, and Sabina (250). St. Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). St. Sophronius, bishop of Vratsa (Bulgaria) (1813). Translation to Constantinople of the relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium. St. Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917).
New Hiero-confessors Patrick (Petrov), hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1933) and Michael (Galushko), schema-archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1961).
St. George, abbot of Sinai (ca. 545), brother of St. John Climacus. St. Oengus (Angus) the Culdee, bishop, of Clonenagh (Ireland) (824). Hieromartyr Eulogius, metropolitan of Cordoba (859). St. George the New, wonderworker of Constantinople (ca. 970). St. Theodora, queen of Arta, wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (ca. 1275). Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, priests, of Laodicea (300).
Slaying of Emperor Paul I of Russia (1801).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Tuesday.
Hell and destruction are before the Lord:[1] how much more then the hearts of the children of men? (Prov. 15:11). But the sinner thinks that nobody sees him. Concealing himself from human eyes, in the darkness of night or in a deserted place, he supposes that he is not noticed by anyone. But God’s eye has seen everything; his guardian angel and conscience were witnesses. At some time you will stand at the judgement: then all that is hidden will be laid bare: uncompromising witnesses will be present—and you shall be speechless. The verdict will not be subject to appeal. There is only one way to prevent this ultimate inevitability: repentance. The door to repentance is open. Hurry to enter, before the hour strikes … and it will strike. When? You do not know. But it will put an end to your sins, or to any hope of pardon.
[1]The Slavonic for Prov. 15:11 reads: Hell and destruction are manifest before the Lord…
Articles
 Martyr Macedonia of SmyrnaSaint Macedonia was martyred during the persecution in the reign of Decius (249-251), along with Saints Pionius and Limnus, Sabina, and Asclepiades. |
 Martyr Limnus of SmyrnaSaint Limnus was martyred during the persecution in the reign of Decius (249-251), along with Saints Pionius and Macedonia, Sabina, and Asclepiades. |
 Venerable Sophronius the Recluse of the Kiev CavesSaint Sophronius the Hermit of the Caves was an ascetic of the Far Caves (the Theodosiev Caves), during the thirteenth century. |
 Translation of the relics of the Martyr Epimachus of PelusiumThe Holy Martyr Epimachus of Alexandria was a native of Egypt. |