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Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 03/13/2025

2nd Thursday of Lent

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Removal of the relics of Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople; Pouplios the Martyr, Bishop of Athens; Christina the Martyr of Persia; Gerald, Bishop of Mayo

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The True Nature of Fasting

Saturday, March 09, 2024

'We waited, and at last our expectations were fulfilled', writes the Serbian Bishop Nikolai of Ochrid, describing the Easter service at Jerusalem. 'When the Patriarch sang "Christ is risen", a heavy burden fell from our souls.We felt as if we also had been raised from the dead. All at once, from all around, the same cry resounded like the noise of many waters. "Christ is risen" sang the Greeks, the Russians, the Arabs, the Serbs, the Copts, the Armenians, the Ethiopians -one after another, each in his own tongue, in his own melody. ...

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"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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Sixth Hour Prayer

O God and Lord of Powers, Creator of all that exists, Who in Your great compassion and ineffable mercy sent down Your Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, for the salvation of our race, and by His precious Cross tore up the handwriting of our sins, and confounded the principalities and powers of darkness: O Master who love mankind, accept from us sinners these prayers of thanksgiving, and deliver us from every destructive and dark fall into sin, and from all the visible and invisible enemies that seek to harm us. Nail down our flesh to the fear of You, and do not incline our hearts to thoughts or words of wickedness, but wound our souls with Your love, that looking toward You and guided by Your Light, we may behold Your unapproachable and eternal Light, and may send up unceasing confession and thanksgiving to You, the Unoriginate Father, with Your Only-begotten Son, and Your most holy, good and life-creating Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Sayings From The Church Fathers

He who forbids his lips to gossip (to speak much) preserves his heart from passions. He who preserves his heart from passions, sees God every hour

- Monks Callistus and Ignatius , from Directions to Hesychasts no. 16f, Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart; Faber and Faber pg. 186

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