How to Overcome Your Sins and Passions? A Lenten Interview with the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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How to Overcome Your Sins and Passions? A Lenten Interview with the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

The primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gives practical recommendations for how to defeat the sinful inclinations of the soul.

Venerable Enda, Abbot of Inishmore

Commemorated: March 21/April 3

Dmitry Lapa

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Venerable Enda, Abbot of Inishmore

Commemorated: March 21/April 3

Dmitry Lapa

The fame of St. Enda spread far and wide. The loving care of the holy abbot was directed not only toward monks, but also at the poor, the oppressed and suffering. According to tradition, he ordered the monks to build “eight places for refuge” on the island, where all who had nowhere else to go could find shelter and care.

Venerable Theodora of Thessalonica

Commemorated on April 5

Venerable Theodora of Thessalonica
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Venerable Theodora of Thessalonica

Commemorated on April 5

She entered a women’s monastery, where she struggled in asceticism and adorned her soul with virtues.

St. Plato the Confessor of Studion

Commemorated on April 5

St. Plato the Confessor of Studion
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St. Plato the Confessor of Studion

Commemorated on April 5

Saint Plato was born in the year 735 into a pious Christian family of the parents, Sergius and Euphemia.

Venerable Theonas the Archbishop of Thessalonica

Commemorated on April 4

Venerable Theonas the Archbishop of Thessalonica
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Venerable Theonas the Archbishop of Thessalonica

Commemorated on April 4

Saint Theonas was a disciple of Saint James of Kastoria (November 1), and lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century.