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Passion Week.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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St. Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Artemon, bishop of Seleucia (1st c.-2nd c.).
St. Zachariah, faster of the Kiev Caves (13th c.-14th c.). Martyrs Stephen and Peter, of Kazan (1552).
St. Thomas, abbot, of the monastery of St. Euthymius (542). St. Caimin of Holy Island on Lough Derg (Ireland) (654). St. Severus of Catania (802-811). New Hieromartyr Parthenius, patriarch of Constantinople (1657). St. Martin, monk, of Thebes. New Hiero-confessor Irinej (Ciric), bishop of Bachka (1955). Synaxis of the Saints of Zverinets Monastery (Kiev)
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.
Articles
 Venerable Zachariah the RecluseSaint Zachariah the Recluse of Egypt because of his concern for the poor and homeless was called “to the outcast.” |
 Martyr Stephen of KazanThe Holy Martyr Stephen of Kazan was a Tatar. |
 Martyr Peter of KazanThe Holy Martyr Peter of Kazan was a newly-baptized Tatar who suffered because he converted to Christianity from Islam. |