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Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 02/04/2025

Tuesday of the 16th Week

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Epistle Reading:

St. Peter's First Universal Letter 3:10-22

Gospel Reading:

Isidore of Pelusium; Nicholas the Confessor; Hieromartyr Abramius; John the Righteous, Bishop of Irinopolis; Theodosios the Righteous; Joseph the New Martyr of Aleppo; Afterfeast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple

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Spiritual Reading

From the Lenten Triodion: Wednesday of the Sixth Week

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Today Lazarus is buried and his sisters sing in lamentation. But in Your divine foreknowledge, You have predicted what should come to pass:

Daily Prayers

"When you pray, try to let the prayer reach your heart; in other words, it is necessary that your heart should feel what you are talking about in your prayer, that it should wish for the blessing for which you are asking.... Observe, during prayer, whether your heart is in accord with that which you are saying." - St. John of Kronstadt

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First Hour Prayer

O Christ the True Light, which enlightens and sanctifies every one coming in to the world, let the light of Your countenance be signed on us, that in it we may see the unapproachable Light: and guide our steps to the doing of Your commandments, through the prayers of Your most pure Mother and all Your saints. Amen.

Sayings From The Church Fathers

no soul can exist without God, without His Son, without His Spirit. God is my being, my breath, my light, my strength, my drink, my food. He carries me as a mother carries her infant in her arms. More than this. Carrying me, my soul and body, He dwells in me, and is united to me.

- St. John of Kronstadt, from My Life in Christ: Part 1, Holy Trinity Monastery pg. 87

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Occupy yourself with reading with a calm spirit, so that your mind may be constantly raised up to contemplation of the wondrous acts of God, lifted, as it were, by some hand outstretched to it. " Abba Evagrius

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