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4th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 6.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplius), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303).
Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (279-275). Martyr Nicander of Egypt (ca. 302). St. Nicander, founder of Gorodnoezersk Monastery (Novgorod) (1603).
New Hieromartyrs Alexis Vinogradov, archpriest, of Novotroitskoye (Tver) (1938) and Michael Bogoslovsky, archpriest, of Simferopol (1940).
St. Zachariah, pope of Rome (752). Martyr Leocritia (Lucretia), at Cordoba (859). New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792). Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (1st c.).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Friday.
The Lord had said unto Abraham: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee (Gen. 12:1). This is an explicit image for the change of heart which occurs in true believers, when they sincerely take upon themselves their cross, and follow Christ. They leave their father—selfishness, crucifying it through self-denial; they leave their kindred—their personal sinful leanings, passions and habits, crucifying them through the resolution to follow unswervingly and in all things the passion-slaying commandments of the Lord; they leave their country, the entire sinful realm, the world with all of its demands, crucifying it with the resolution to be alien to it—although for this it might be necessary to endure not only loss of property and social status, but even to endure death itself.
Articles
 Hieromartyr Alexander of Side, in PamphyliaMiraculously preserved by the Lord, the saint underwent all the tortures with surprising endurance, and finally, he was beheaded. |
 Martyr Nicander of EgyptThe Holy Martyr Nicander suffered in Egypt under the emperor Diocletian (284-305). |